1 Petrus 1:2

1:2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father by being set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling ¹  with Jesus Christ’s blood. May grace and peace be yours in full measure! ² 

1 Petrus 3:20

3:20 after they were disobedient long ago ³  when God patiently waited ⁴  in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark ⁵  a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.

1 Petrus 4:3

4:3 For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians ⁶  desire. ⁷  You lived then ⁸  in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, ⁹  and wanton idolatries. ¹⁰ 

1 Petrus 5:10

5:10 And, after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ ¹¹  will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. ¹² 

[1:2]  ¹ sn For obedience and for sprinkling indicates the purpose of their choice or election by God.

[1:2]  ² tn Grk “be multiplied to you.”

[3:20]  ³ tn This reflects a Greek participle, literally “having been disobedient formerly,” that refers to the “spirits” in v. 19. Many translations take this as adjectival describing the spirits (“who had once been disobedient”; cf. NASB, NIV, NKJV, NLT, NRSV, TEV), but the grammatical construction strongly favors an adverbial interpretation describing the time of the preaching, as reflected above.

[3:20]  ⁴ tn Grk “the patience of God waited.”

[3:20]  ⁵ tn Grk “in which,” referring to the ark; the referent (the ark) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[4:3]  ⁶ tn Grk “the Gentiles,” used here of those who are not God’s people.

[4:3]  ⁷ tn Grk “to accomplish the desire of the Gentiles.”

[4:3]  ⁸ tn Grk “having gone along,” referring to the readers’ behavior in time past.

[4:3]  ⁹ tn According to BDAG 857 s.v. πότος the term refers to a social gathering at which wine is served, hence “drinking parties” (cf. TEV, NASB). However, the collocation with the other terms in v. 4 suggests something less sophisticated and more along the lines of wild and frenzied drinking bouts.

[4:3]  ¹⁰ tn The Greek words here all occur in the plural to describe their common practice in the past.

[5:10]  ¹¹ tc ‡ A few important mss (א B 614 630 1505 pc) lack “Jesus” after “Christ,” while the majority include the name (Ì⁷² A P Ψ 33 1739 Ï latt). However, the inclusion is a natural and predictable expansion on the text. NA²⁷ includes ᾿Ιησοῦ (Ihsou, “Jesus”) in brackets, indicating doubts as to its authenticity. .

[5:10]  ¹² tn The pronoun “you” is not used explicitly but is clearly implied by the Greek.