1 Peter 1:9

End. Gr. telos, “end,” “outcome,” “final end in view,” “goal” (see on Rom. 10:4; 1 Tim. 1:5). The outcome of faith is deliverance from sin (see 1 Peter 1:5) and the reception of the everlasting “inheritance” (see v. 4) that awaits every true Christian at the final judgment. Eden restored is God’s reward for all the redeemed.

Faith. See on v. 5.

Souls. Gr. psuchai (see on Matt. 10:28; cf. on Ps. 16:10). Compare Matt. 16:25, where psuche is translated “life” and where the subject of the salvation of the psuche is also under discussion. In 1 Peter “your souls” may be understood either as “your lives” or, idiomatically, as “yourselves.”