What Does 1 Peter 1:13 Mean in the King James?

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

1 Peter 1:13 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The mind is gathered for movement while favor is already being carried toward you for its unveiling.

THE MEANING

Your attention is pictured as gathered and ready, while sobriety keeps it clear. Hope has an object: the favor being brought to you, revealed in Jesus the Anointed One. Readiness and expectation are the shape of the life this verse describes now.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

This undoes the belief that hope is a feeling you must generate without an object: here it rests on favor already being brought toward you and on an unveiling still ahead.

THE ROOT

ἀναζωσάμενοι

anazōsamenoi

GROWS FROM

ζώννυμι

zōnnymi

To gird or fasten around; ⁨ἀναζωσάμενοι⁩ means having girded up.

“gird up” in this verse is anazōsamenoi. The image gathers loose clothing so the body is ready to move, and Peter applies that image to the mind. Readiness here is not a vague state: thought is drawn together around what is coming.

ALSO GROWS

zōnē: A belt or girdle.

ζώνη

The belt fastens what would otherwise hang loose, echoing the gathered attention pictured in the verse.

perizōnnymi: To gird around or fasten about.

περιζώννυμι

This is the same girding image used for the loins in Luke 12:35, where bodily readiness carries the same sense of being prepared to move.

ἀποκαλύψει

apokalypsei

GROWS FROM

καλύπτω

kalyptō

To cover; the compound ⁨ἀποκαλύπτω⁩ (apokalyptō) means to uncover or reveal.

The word translated “revelation” names an uncovering: what is concealed becomes visible. The verse joins that unveiling to favor being brought to you, so hope rests on something moving toward disclosure.

ALSO GROWS

kalymma: A covering or veil.

κάλυμμα

A covering marks what remains hidden; revelation is the movement by which that hiddenness is removed.

apokalyptō: To uncover or reveal.

ἀποκαλύπτω

This verb shares the word’s root and makes clear that revelation is an unveiling, not merely new information.

THE PATTERN

Scriptural readiness gathers attention around what is coming and keeps expectation awake.

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;

Luke 12:35 · KJVGathered loins and burning lamps picture a life alert and prepared for what arrives.

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

Ephesians 6:14 · KJVTruth fastens the loins, placing alignment at the body’s point of readiness.

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

1 Thessalonians 5:8 · KJVSobriety and hope appear together as alertness that holds deliverance in view.

THE THREAD

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;

Luke 12:35 · KJV

Luke uses the same girding root: readiness is pictured as fastening what is loose before movement. Peter turns that image inward, the mind is gathered, then kept awake in hope for favor as Jesus is unveiled.

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