1 Peter 1:5

God, by his mighty power, is guarding you as you trust in Jesus. He is keeping you safe so that he may, at the end of the time in which we now live (OR, when Jesus returns), completely deliver you from Satan’s power.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

In Context

4He has enabled us to expect to receive an absolutely imperishable/indestructible [TRI] inheritance that has been {that God has} preserved in heaven for us.

6You rejoice because of what will happen then, but now you are grieving for a short time while God is allowing you to be tested { various things to test you [MET]}, as precious metals are tested { someone tests precious metals} to see if they are pure. These trials that you are experiencing are necessary

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Cross References

Job 19:25But I know that the one who vindicates/defends me in court is alive, and that some day he will stand here on the earth and make the final decision about whether I deserve to be punished.

Psalms 37:28That will happen because Yahweh likes to see people doing what is just, and he will never forsake righteous/godly people. He will protect them forever; but he will get rid of the children of wicked people.

Psalms 125:1Those/We who trust in Yahweh are as secure/steadfast [SIM] as Zion Hill, which cannot be shaken and can never be moved.

Isaiah 45:17But you, Yahweh, will rescue us, your Israeli people, and we will be free forever. Never again will we again be humiliated and disgraced.

Isaiah 54:17But I am promising you that I will not allow you to be defeated/injured by soldiers using weapons that have been made to attack you, and when others try to accuse you, you will ◄refute them/show that they are wrong►. That is the reward that I will give to the people who serve me; I will defend them; that is what I, Yahweh, promise.”

John 4:14But those who drink the water that I will give them will never be thirsty again. On the contrary, the water that I give them will become in their inner beings like a spring of water that will enable them to have eternal life.”

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 1:4-6

Privileges of Christians. ( a. d. 66.) 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. We come now to the body of the epistle, which begins with, I. A congratulation of… Read the whole commentary →

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