Editing First Epistle of Peter (section)

{{Short description|Book of the New Testament}}
{{redirect|1 Pet.|the first volume of ''Peters's Reports''|List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 26}}
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[[File:Papyrus Bodmer VIII.jpg|thumb|1 Peter 5:11–14, continuing on to [[2 Peter]] on [[Papyrus 72]] ({{Circa|AD 300}})<ref>{{Cite book |last=Aland |first=Kurt |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2pYDsAhUOxAC |title=The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism |last2=Aland |first2=Barbara |publisher=[[William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company|Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.]] |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-8028-4098-1 |edition=2nd |location=Grand Rapids, MI |pages=159 |language=en |translator-last=Rhodes |translator-first=Erroll F. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005232815/https://books.google.com/books?id=2pYDsAhUOxAC |archive-date=October 5, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>]]
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The '''First Epistle of Peter'''{{Efn|The book is sometimes called the '''First Letter of Peter''', or simply '''1 Peter'''.<ref>{{Cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=HiPouAEACAAJ |title=ESV Pew Bible |publisher= Crossway |year= 2018 |isbn=978-1-4335-6343-0 |location= Wheaton, IL |page = 1014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210603093159/https://www.google.com/books/edition/ESV_Pew_Bible_Black/HiPouAEACAAJ |archive-date=June 3, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> It is most commonly abbreviated as "1 Pet."<ref>{{Cite web |title= Bible Book Abbreviations |url= https://www.logos.com/bible-book-abbreviations |url-status= live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220421100743/https://www.logos.com/bible-book-abbreviations |archive-date= April 21, 2022 |access-date=April 21, 2022 |website= Logos Bible Software}}</ref>}} is a book of the [[New Testament]]. The author presents himself as [[Peter the Apostle]]. The ending of the letter includes a statement that implies that it was written from "[[Babylon]]", which may be a reference to [[Rome]]. The letter is addressed to the "[[First Epistle of Peter#Audience |chosen pilgrims of the diaspora]]" in [[Early Christianity#Anatolia|Asia Minor]] suffering religious persecution.