Greetings from Peter, a follower and student of YAHUSHA MESSIAH.
1 To all the chosen people who are scattered all over the areas of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia. 2 YAHUAH planned long ago to choose you and (by His Spirit) make you His Set-Apart people, and through the sprinkling of YAHUSHA’S blood, you are all made clean. So I pray that you’ll enjoy more and more favour and peace through Him.
3 Praise be to the only Living Alahim and Father of our Master YAHUSHA MESSIAH. For through His compassion and love we have been born anew from above and given a new life, which brings us a great expectation and living hope through YAHUSHA MESSIAH’S resurrection from the dead. 4 Now we wait to receive the incorruptible blessings and inheritance He has for His people. Blessings being kept in the Heaven (SHAMAYIM - WHERE YAHUSHA IS) undefiled and unfading, unable to be ruined or destroyed or ever lose their beauty.
5 The power of YAHUSHA protects you through your belief, and it keeps you safe until your deliverance is revealed and ready to be given to you at the end of time. 6 I know the thought of that is so exciting, even if you must suffer through different kinds of troubles and trials for a short time now. 7 Don’t forget that these current troubles test your belief and prove that it’s pure. And such belief is worth more than gold to YAHUSHA, for the purity of gold can only be proved by fire, but physical gold perishes and fades. But when your belief is proven to be pure, the result will be praise and esteem and honour at the revelation and return of YAHUSHA MESSIAH.
8 You have not seen YAHUSHA, but you still love Him. You can’t see Him now, but you believe in Him. You are filled with a wonderful and Heavenly joy that cannot be explained. 9 Your belief has a goal, and you are indeed reaching that goal, which is your deliverance!
10 The Prophets studied carefully and tried to learn about this deliverance. They spoke about the favour that was coming to you. 11 The Spirit of Messiah was in those Prophets. And the Spirit was speaking about the sufferings that would happen to Messiah and about the esteem that would come after those sufferings. The Prophets tried to learn about what the Spirit was showing them - when it would happen and what the world would be like at that time.
12 It was made clear to them that their service was not for themselves. They were serving you when they spoke about the things you’ve now heard. Of course you heard about it from those who offered you the Good News of deliverance through the power of YAHUSHA’S Spirit sent from Heaven. Even the Angels would really like to know more about these things you were told.
13 So prepare your minds for service (gird up the loins of your mind, being sober, awake and conscious). With complete self-control put all your hope and expectation in the favour that will be yours very soon, at the revelation and return of YAHUSHA MESSIAH. 14 In the past you did not have the understanding you have now, so you behaved whatever ignorant lusts and evil you wanted to do. But now you are YAHUSHA’S Bride, so you should obey Him and not live or behave the way you did before. 15 Be Set-Apart in everything you do, just as YAHUSHA is Set-Apart. He is the One Who chose you. 16 Remember in the Scriptures YAHUAH says, “Be Set-Apart, because I am Set-Apart.” LEV 11:44-45 & 19:2 & 20:7
17 You pray to YAHUAH and call him Father, but He will judge everyone the same way, by the way there behave. So while you’re travelling through this earth-life, you should live with fear and respect for YAHUSHA. 18 You know that in the past the way you were dead and your life was futile and useless. It was a way of life you learned from those who lived before you. But you were delivered from that way of life. You were bought back (redeemed), not with payment that ruins like gold or silver. 19 You were bought with the precious blood of YAHUSHA’S death. He was a pure and perfect Sacrificial Lamb. 20 YAHUSHA was chosen before the world was even created, but was revealed to the world in these last times just for you. 21 You believe in YAHUAH through Messiah. YAHUAH is the one who raised Him from death and gave honour to Him. So your belief and your hope are in YAHUSHA. 22 You have made yourselves pure by obeying the truth. Now you can have true love for your brothers and sisters. So love each other deeply and fervently, with all your heart. 23 You’ve been born anew from above, not through anything corrupt, but through YAHUSHA’S incorruptible seed, and you were born anew through YAHUSHA’S life-giving Words that lasts forever. 24 For the Scriptures say, “Our lives are like the grass of spring, and any esteem we enjoy is like the beauty of a wildflower. The grass dries up and dies, and the flower falls to the ground. 25 But the word of YAHUSHA lasts forever.” And that word is the Good News that was offered to you.
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