Catholic Public Domain Version

1 Peter 1:5-11 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

5. By the power of God, you are guarded through faith for a salvation which is ready to be revealed in the end time.

6. In this, you should exult, if now, for a brief time, it is necessary to be made sorrowful by various trials,

7. so that the testing of your faith, which is much more precious than gold tested by fire, may be found in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

8. For though you have not seen him, you love him. In him also, though you do not see him, you now believe. And in believing, you shall exult with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

9. returning with the goal of your faith, the salvation of souls.

10. About this salvation, the prophets inquired and diligently searched, those who prophesied about the future grace in you,

11. inquiring as to what type of condition was signified to them by the Spirit of Christ, when foretelling those sufferings that are in Christ, as well as the subsequent glories.