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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1PE.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1PE.1.1"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1PE.1.1"><span class="content">To God&#8217;s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1PE.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood:</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1PE.1.2"></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1PE.1.2"><span class="content">Grace and peace be yours in abundance.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Praise to God for a Living Hope</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1PE.1.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1PE.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1PE.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1PE.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">who through faith are shielded by God&#8217;s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1PE.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1PE.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith&#8212;of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire&#8212;may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1PE.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1PE.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1PE.1.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1PE.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1PE.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of the Messiah and the glories that would follow. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1PE.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things.</span></span></div>
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