1 Peter 1:3

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Summary

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

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And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,

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Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

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And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

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The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

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And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.

Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?

But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen: