1 Peter 1:4

to an inheritance incorruptible The clause is co-ordinate with the preceding and depends upon the word "begotten." The idea of the "inheritance" is again essentially Pauline (Acts 20:32; Galatians 3:18; Ephesians 1:14; Ephesians 1:18 and elsewhere). The epithets attached to the word distinguish it from any earthly inheritance, such as had been given to Israel (Acts 7:5), and agree with the "everlasting inheritance" of Hebrews 9:15. Here it answers to the completed "salvation" of the next verse, of which we get glimpses and foretastes here, but which is reserved in its fulness in and for the region of the eternal. In that inheritance there is nothing that mars, nothing that defiles (Revelation 21:27), nothing that fades away, as the flower of the field fadeth (James 1:10-11). The two latter adjectives (amiantos, amarantos) have in the Greek an impressive assonance which cannot be reproduced in English.

for you Some MSS. give "for us," but this was probably a correction due to the use of the first person in the preceding verse, and the present text, which rests on the authority of the best MSS., is like St Paul's changes from the first person to the second (as in Romans 7:4-5; Ephesians 2:13-14), the natural expression of the feeling of the Apostle that what he hopes and believes for himself, he hopes and believes also for those to whom he writes.