But now, since you have been freed from [the practice of] sin and have become slaves to God, the benefits you receive are a holy life [here] and never ending life in the future.
1 Peter 1:9 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) Your faith will [finally] bring about the salvation of your souls. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [At the same time] you receive the result (outcome, consummation) of your faith, the salvation of your souls. American Standard Version (1901) receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. Common English Bible You are receiving the goal of your faith: your salvation. Catholic Public Domain Version returning with the goal of your faith, the salvation of souls. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. |
But now, since you have been freed from [the practice of] sin and have become slaves to God, the benefits you receive are a holy life [here] and never ending life in the future.
These people [all] continued to have faith until they died, [even though] they had not obtained [all] the things God had promised, but had [only] seen them and welcomed them from a distance. And they had confessed to being strangers and aliens on earth.
Therefore, you should put away [from you] all moral filth and overflowing wickedness and humbly receive the word [of God], planted within you [by the Holy Spirit. See John 16:8], which is capable of saving your souls.
These people had disobeyed [Noah’s preaching, See II Pet. 2:5] back when God’s patience waited [for them to repent, See Gen. 6:3], during the days of Noah, when the ship was being constructed. It was by that means [i.e., the ship floating them to safety through the Flood waters] that a few persons, eight of them, were saved [from destruction] through water.