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# 1 Peter 1

1 Peter 1 is chapter 1 of 5 in the First Letter of Peter. Here are all 25 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He gives thanks to God for the benefit of our being called to the true faith and to eternal life, into which we are to enter by many tribulations. He exhorts to holiness of life, considering the holiness of God and our redemption by the blood of Christ.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 1 Peter 1 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Peter, Apostle of Jesus Christ, to the newly-arrived elect of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2. in accord with the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, with the obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied for you.
3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has regenerated us into a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead:
4. unto an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance, which is reserved for you in heaven.
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.
12. To them, it was revealed that they were ministering, not for themselves, but for you those things which have now been announced to you through those who have preached the Gospel to you, through the Holy Spirit, who was sent down from heaven to the One upon whom the Angels desire to gaze.
13. For this reason, gird the waist of your mind, be sober, and hope perfectly in the grace that is offered to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.
14. Be like sons of obedience, not conforming to the desires of your former ignorance,
15. but in accord with him who has called you: the Holy One. And in every behavior, you yourself must be holy,
16. for it is written: “You shall be holy, for I am Holy.”
17. And if you invoke as Father him who, without showing favoritism to persons, judges according to each one’s work, then act in fear during the time of your sojourning here.
18. For you know that it was not with corruptible gold or silver that you were redeemed away from your useless behavior in the traditions of your fathers,
19. but it was with the precious blood of Christ, an immaculate and undefiled lamb,
20. foreknown, certainly, before the foundation of the world, and made manifest in these latter times for your sake.
21. Through him, you have been faithful to God, who raised him up from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope would be in God.
22. So chastise your souls with the obedience of charity, in fraternal love, and love one another from a simple heart, attentively.
23. For you have been born again, not from corruptible seed, but from what is incorruptible, from the Word of God, living and remaining for all eternity.
24. For all flesh is like the grass and all its glory is like the flower of the grass. The grass withers and its flower falls away.
25. But the Word of the Lord endures for eternity. And this is the Word that has been evangelized to you.

## 1 Peter 1 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Petrus Apostolus Jesu Christi, electis advenis dispersionis Ponti, Galatiæ, Cappadociæ, Asiæ, et Bithyniæ,
2. secundum præscientiam Dei Patris, in sanctificationem Spiritus, in obedientiam, et aspersionem sanguinis Jesu Christi. Gratia vobis, et pax multiplicetur.
3. Benedictus Deus et Pater Domini nostri Jesu Christi, qui secundum misericordiam suam magnam regeneravit nos in spem vivam, per resurrectionem Jesu Christi ex mortuis,
4. in hæreditatem incorruptibilem, et incontaminatam, et immarcescibilem, conservatam in cælis in vobis,
5. qui in virtute Dei custodimini per fidem in salutem, paratam revelari in tempore novissimo.
6. In quo exsultabis, modicum nunc si oportet contristari in variis tentationibus:
7. ut probatio vestræ fidei multo pretiosior auro (quod per ignem probatur) inveniatur in laudem, et gloriam, et honorem in revelatione Jesu Christi:
8. quem cum non videritis, diligitis: in quem nunc quoque non videntes creditis: credentes autem exsultabitis lætitia inenarrabili, et glorificata:
9. reportantes finem fidei vestræ, salutem animarum.
10. De qua salute exquisierunt, atque scrutati sunt prophetæ, qui de futura in vobis gratia prophetaverunt:
11. scrutantes in quod vel quale tempus significaret in eis Spiritus Christi: prænuntians eas quæ in Christo sunt passiones, et posteriores glorias:
12. quibus revelatum est quia non sibimetipsis, vobis autem ministrabant ea quæ nunc nuntiata sunt vobis per eos qui evangelizaverunt vobis, Spiritu Sancto misso de cælo, in quem desiderant angeli prospicere.
13. Propter quod succincti lumbos mentis vestræ, sobrii, perfecte sperate in eam, quæ offertur vobis, gratiam, in revelationem Jesu Christi:
14. quasi filii obedientiæ, non configurati prioribus ignorantiæ vestræ desideriis:
15. sed secundum eum qui vocavit vos, Sanctum: et ipsi in omni conversatione sancti sitis:
16. quoniam scriptum est: Sancti eritis, quoniam ego sanctus sum.
17. Et si patrem invocatis eum, qui sine acceptione personarum judicat secundum uniuscujusque opus, in timore incolatus vestri tempore conversamini.
18. Scientes quod non corruptibilibus, auro vel argento, redempti estis de vana vestra conversatione paternæ traditionis:
19. sed pretioso sanguine quasi agni immaculati Christi, et incontaminati:
20. præcogniti quidem ante mundi constitutionem, manifestati autem novissimis temporibus propter vos,
21. qui per ipsum fideles estis in Deo, qui suscitavit eum a mortuis, et dedit ei gloriam, ut fides vestra et spes esset in Deo:
22. animas vestras castificantes in obedientia caritatis, in fraternitatis amore, simplici ex corde invicem diligite attentius:
23. renati non ex semine corruptibili, sed incorruptibili per verbum Dei vivi, et permanentis in æternum:
24. quia omnis caro ut fœnum: et omnis gloria ejus tamquam flos fœni: exaruit fœnum, et flos ejus decidit.
25. Verbum autem Domini manet in æternum: hoc est autem verbum, quod evangelizatum est in vos.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2627: Blessing and Adoration ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1031: The Final Purification, or Purgatory ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 719: The Spirit of Christ in the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 654: On the Third Day He Rose From the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1228: Baptism in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2769: The Prayer of the Church ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Let us fix our gaze on the blood of Christ and realize how precious it is to His Father, since it was poured out for our salvation and brought the grace of repentance to the whole world.” — St. Clement of Rome, Letter to the Corinthians, 7, c. 96 (On this theme: verse 19)

## Read at Mass (US)

- Fri, Jul 30, 2027 (computed): Friday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time — Alleluia, 1 Peter 1:25
- Mon, Feb 28, 2028 (computed): Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, 1 Peter 1:3-9
- Tue, Feb 29, 2028 (computed): Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, 1 Peter 1:10-16
- Fri, Aug 4, 2028 (computed): St. John Vianney, Priest — Alleluia, 1 Peter 1:25

1 more date through December 31, 2028, in the [liturgical calendar](https://blessbible.app/calendar/).

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).