These words relate the content of the apostle’s exhorting and declaring and so are Peter’s summary of what he has written in this letter. The concept of being born again so as to have an eternal inheritance (1 Peter 1:3–4) is, despite all the suffering that follows in a suspicious and even hostile world, the true grace of God. Peter had used the term grace various times already in his letter (1 Peter 1:2, 1 Peter 1:10, 1 Peter 1:13; 1 Peter 2:19, 1 Peter 2:20; 1 Peter 3:7; 1 Peter 4:10; 1 Peter 5:5, 1 Peter 5:10) to denote the kindness and undeserved goodness of God. That sinners may be divinely acted upon so as to be born again and become heirs to God’s glory is grace, in a far more ultimate (true) way than any other evidence of God’s kindness and grace (see Matthew 5:45). This true grace is the overriding theme of Peter’s letter and the decisive and fundamental reality of his readers’ lives.