What Does 1 Peter 1:21 Mean in the King James?
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.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Through Jesus, trust and hope share one destination, God, whose act of raising him from death gives both their ground.
THE MEANING
This verse locates your trust and expectation in God through Jesus. God raises Jesus from among the dead and gives him weight; trust and hope rest in the One whose action opens life beyond death.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie this undoes is that death leaves trust and hope without ground; the verse places both in God, who raises Jesus from the dead.
THE ROOT
πίστιν
pistin
GROWS FROM
πείθω
peithō
Persuade, win over, or be persuaded into trust.
Here, faith is trust that leans its full weight on God, not bare agreement with a claim. This word family moves between trusting and being trustworthy, making reliance relational rather than detached.
ALSO GROWS
peithō: Persuade; be persuaded; trust.
πείθω
It shows the family’s movement from persuasion into the trust expressed in this verse.
pisteuō: Trust, believe.
πιστεύω
This verb names the act of trusting God that the verse describes.
pistos: Trustworthy, reliable.
πιστός
Its sense of reliability shows the relational ground that makes trust possible.
ἐλπίδα
elpida
GROWS FROM
ἔλπω
elpō
Expect or anticipate.
Hope is expectation aimed somewhere: here, it is directed toward God. Alongside trust, it names a present reliance on the One whose raising of Jesus opens a future beyond death.
ALSO GROWS
elpis: Hope, expectation.
ἐλπίς
This noun is the form rendered “hope,” and its sense of expectation clarifies what rests in God.
elpizō: Hope, expect.
ἐλπίζω
The related verb expresses expectation as an active orientation, matching the verse’s direction toward God.
ἐγείραντα
egeiranta
GROWS FROM
ἐγείρω
egeirō
Raise, awaken, rouse.
The verb translated “raised” also carries the sense of waking or rousing. The verse presents resurrection as God’s act of waking Jesus from death, and names that act as the ground for your trust and hope.
ALSO GROWS
egeirō: Raise, awaken.
ἐγείρω
This verb joins waking and raising in the same word family, deepening the force of God raising Jesus from the dead.
egersis: Rising, resurrection.
ἔγερσις
This noun makes the family’s rising sense explicit in resurrection language.
diegeirō: Awaken, stir up.
διεγείρω
Its related form preserves the waking sense behind the verse’s description of resurrection.
THE PATTERN
Trust and hope find their ground in the God who raises the dead.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.THE THREAD
But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;Romans 4:24 repeats the same Greek trust family and the same verb for raising from the dead. It makes the hinge in this verse visible: trust is directed to the God whose act of raising grounds it.
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