1 Petrus 2:9

2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues ¹  of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Petrus 3:20

3:20 after they were disobedient long ago ²  when God patiently waited ³  in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark ⁴  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 ⁵  desire. ⁶  You lived then ⁷  in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, ⁸  and wanton idolatries. ⁹ 

1 Petrus 5:1

Leading and Living in God’s Flock

5:1 So as your fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings and as one who shares in the glory that will be revealed, I urge the elders among you:

[2:9]  ¹ sn This verse contains various allusions and quotations from Exod 19:5-6; 23:22 (LXX); Isa 43:20-21; and Mal 3:17.

[3:20]  ² 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]  ³ tn Grk “the patience of God waited.”

[3:20]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ tn Grk “the Gentiles,” used here of those who are not God’s people.

[4:3]  ⁶ tn Grk “to accomplish the desire of the Gentiles.”

[4:3]  ⁷ tn Grk “having gone along,” referring to the readers’ behavior in time past.

[4:3]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn The Greek words here all occur in the plural to describe their common practice in the past.