1 Peter 1:5
who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,
Young's Literal Translation
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
4to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,
6in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,
Cross References
Job 19:25That — I have known my Redeemer, The Living and the Last, For the dust he doth rise.
Psalms 37:28For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.
Psalms 125:1A Song of the Ascents. Those trusting in Jehovah [are] as Mount Zion, It is not moved — to the age it abideth.
Isaiah 45:17Israel hath been saved in Jehovah, A salvation age-during! Ye are not ashamed nor confounded Unto the ages of eternity!
Isaiah 54:17No weapon formed against thee prospereth, And every tongue rising against thee, In judgment thou condemnest. This [is] the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah, And their righteousness from me, an affirmation of Jehovah!
John 4:14but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst — to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'
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 →