What Does 1 Peter 1:3 Mean in the King James?

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 1:3 · KJV

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THE KEY

The hope born in you is alive now because resurrection means life standing up again where death had put it down.

THE MEANING

The God and Father of Jesus Christ is the source of abundant compassion, and that compassion gives you new birth into a hope that is alive now. Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead is the ground of that hope. Death does not have the last word over what can begin in you.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

This undoes the belief that what has passed through death can only be remembered, never renewed.

THE ROOT

ἀνάστασις

anastasis

GROWS FROM

ἵστημι

histēmi

To stand or cause to stand; anastasis joins this root with ana, “up” or “again,” to name a standing up.

English makes resurrection sound like an abstract event, but the Greek word carries the image of standing up again. The hope in this verse is living because the life that death could not hold has risen and now gives hope its footing.

ALSO GROWS

anistēmi: To raise up or stand up

ἀνίστημι

This verb shares the same standing-up movement, showing resurrection as life rising to its feet.

stasis: A standing or position

στάσις

This word preserves the root image of standing: the resurrection is a life restored to a standing place beyond death’s hold.

THE PATTERN

New life is received as compassion’s gift and takes shape through rising from death.

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Psalm 30:3 · KJVThe psalm names life restored from the grave as the LORD’s act, the same rising movement that makes hope live.

After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

Hosea 6:2 · KJVBeing raised up and living again are joined as one movement out of death’s reach.

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

1 Corinthians 15:20 · KJVChrist’s rising is named as the beginning of life for those who have died.

THE THREAD

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

John 11:25 · KJV

John uses the same word, anastasis, translated “resurrection” here. Jesus names that rising as present life, opening the “living hope” in Peter’s verse as more than a future expectation.

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