1 Peter 1:20
18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.
- KJV
- Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
- WEB
- who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,
- ASV
- who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake,
- DARBY
- foreknown indeed before [the] foundation of [the] world, but who has been manifested at the end of times for your sakes,
- BLB
- having been foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but having been made manifest in the last times on account of you⁺,
- ÅB
- han som forut var kjent, før verdens grunnvoll ble lagt, men ble åpenbart ved tidenes ende for deres skyld,
- OTB
- For Han var kjent før verdens grunnleggelse, men har vist seg i disse siste tider for deres skyld
- B1930
- han som forut var kjent, før verdens grunnvoll blev lagt, men blev åpenbaret ved tidenes ende for eders skyld,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ephesians 1:4
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Read in context2 Timothy 1:9–10
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
Read in contextHebrews 9:26
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Read in contextRevelation 13:8
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Read in contextHebrews 1:2
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Read in contextTitus 1:2–3
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Read in contextColossians 1:26
Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
Read in contextMicah 5:2
But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
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