My LORD’s Bible1 Peter 1
The Douay-Rheims Bible in Bishop Challoner's revision (1749-52), the standard English Bible of the Catholic Church for two centuries, translated from the Latin Vulgate, with the Clementine Vulgate Latin beside each verse. The English is that of Project Gutenberg's electronic text, with Challoner's notes left out; the Latin is the Clementine Vulgate of 1598, with the medieval Glossa Ordinaria commentary of the edition left out. Book names and chapter and verse numbers follow the Vulgate, so the Psalms are numbered as in the Vulgate (Psalm 22 here is Psalm 23 in the King James Version).
2According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied.
secundum præscientiam Dei Patris, in sanctificationem Spiritus, in obedientiam, et aspersionem sanguinis Jesu Christi. Gratia vobis, et pax multiplicetur.
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead:
Benedictus Deus et Pater Domini nostri Jesu Christi, qui secundum misericordiam suam magnam regeneravit nos in spem vivam, per resurrectionem Jesu Christi ex mortuis,
4Unto an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled and that cannot fade, reserved in heaven for you,
in hæreditatem incorruptibilem, et incontaminatam, et immarcescibilem, conservatam in cælis in vobis,
6Wherein you shall greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations:
In quo exsultabis, modicum nunc si oportet contristari in variis tentationibus:
7That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ.
ut probatio vestræ fidei multo pretiosior auro (quod per ignem probatur) inveniatur in laudem, et gloriam, et honorem in revelatione Jesu Christi:
8Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now though you see him not, you believe and, believing, shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorified;
quem cum non videritis, diligitis: in quem nunc quoque non videntes creditis: credentes autem exsultabitis lætitia inenarrabili, et glorificata:
9Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
reportantes finem fidei vestræ, salutem animarum.
10Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and diligently searched, who prophesied of the grace to come in you.
De qua salute exquisierunt, atque scrutati sunt prophetæ, qui de futura in vobis gratia prophetaverunt:
11Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them did signify, when it foretold those sufferings that are in Christ and the glories that should follow.
scrutantes in quod vel quale tempus significaret in eis Spiritus Christi: prænuntians eas quæ in Christo sunt passiones, et posteriores glorias:
12To whom it was revealed that, not to themselves but to you, they ministered those things which are now declared to you by them that have preached the gospel to you: the Holy Ghost being sent down from heaven, on whom the angels desire to look.
quibus revelatum est quia non sibimetipsis, vobis autem ministrabant ea quæ nunc nuntiata sunt vobis per eos qui evangelizaverunt vobis, Spiritu Sancto misso de cælo, in quem desiderant angeli prospicere.
13Wherefore, having the loins of your mind girt up, being sober, trust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Propter quod succincti lumbos mentis vestræ, sobrii, perfecte sperate in eam, quæ offertur vobis, gratiam, in revelationem Jesu Christi:
14As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance,
quasi filii obedientiæ, non configurati prioribus ignorantiæ vestræ desideriis:
15But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you also in all manner of conversation holy:
sed secundum eum qui vocavit vos, Sanctum: et ipsi in omni conversatione sancti sitis:
16Because it is written: You shall be holy, for I am holy.
quoniam scriptum est: Sancti eritis, quoniam ego sanctus sum.
17And if you invoke as Father him who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to every one’s work: converse in fear during the time of your sojourning here.
Et si patrem invocatis eum, qui sine acceptione personarum judicat secundum uniuscujusque opus, in timore incolatus vestri tempore conversamini.
19But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled.
sed pretioso sanguine quasi agni immaculati Christi, et incontaminati:
20Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you:
præcogniti quidem ante mundi constitutionem, manifestati autem novissimis temporibus propter vos,
21Who through him are faithful in God who raised him up from the dead and hath given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.
qui per ipsum fideles estis in Deo, qui suscitavit eum a mortuis, et dedit ei gloriam, ut fides vestra et spes esset in Deo:
23Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever.
renati non ex semine corruptibili, sed incorruptibili per verbum Dei vivi, et permanentis in æternum:
25But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel hath been preached unto you.
Verbum autem Domini manet in æternum: hoc est autem verbum, quod evangelizatum est in vos.