1 Peter 1:13

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind The words were in any case a natural figure for prompt readiness for activity, but, coming from one who had been a personal disciple of the Lord Jesus, we cannot fail to trace in them an echo of His words as recorded in Luke 12:35, possibly also, looking to the many instances of parallelism with St Paul's Epistles, of those which we find in Ephesians 6:14. The sequence of thought is that the prospect of the coming glories should be a motive to unflagging activity during men's sojourn upon earth.

be sober, and hope to the end The verb for "be sober" expresses a sobriety of the Nazarite type. It meets us in 1 Thessalonians 5:6; 1 Thessalonians 5:8, and in this Epistle, chaps. 1Pe 4:7, 1 Peter 5:8. The marginal reading perfectly, as though he said "hope with a hope that lacks nothing of completeness," answers better to the meaning of the adverb than the phrase in the English Version.

the grace that is to be brought unto you Literally, as the Greek participle is in the present tense and has no gerundial force, the grace which is being brought unto you. The communication is thought of as continuous, and finding its sphere of action in every successive revelation of Jesus Christ from that of the soul's first consciousness of His presence, as in Galatians 1:16, through those which accompany the stages of spiritual growth, as in 2 Corinthians 12:1, to that of the final Advent. The use of the phrase in 1 Peter 1:7 gives, perhaps, a somewhat emphatic prominence to the last thought.