Reference: Peter, First Epistle Of
Easton
This epistle is addressed to "the strangers scattered abroad", i.e., to the Jews of the Dispersion (the Diaspora).
Its object is to confirm its readers in the doctrines they had been already taught. Peter has been called "the apostle of hope," because this epistle abounds with words of comfort and encouragement fitted to sustain a "lively hope." It contains about thirty-five references to the Old Testament.
It was written from Babylon, on the Euphrates, which was at this time one of the chief seats of Jewish learning, and a fitting centre for labour among the Jews. It has been noticed that in the beginning of his epistle Peter names the provinces of Asia Minor in the order in which they would naturally occur to one writing from Babylon. He counsels (1) to steadfastness and perseverance under persecution (1-2:10); (2) to the practical duties of a holy life (2:11-3:13); (3) he adduces the example of Christ and other motives to patience and holiness (3:14-4:19); and (4) concludes with counsels to pastors and people (ch. 5).
Hastings
No Epistle of the NT has caught more of the spirit of Jesus than 1Peter . Imbued with a strong love for the risen Christ, and a profound conviction of the truth of the gospel as established in the world by the life, death, and resurrection of the Messiah, the author delineates a rich Christian life on the basis of these evangelical facts.
1. Contents.
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Who the man desiring life, loving days, to see good?
The stone the builders refused will be for the head of the corner.
But he will deride to those deriding: and he will give grace to the humble.
Hatred will excite strifes: and love will cover over all transgressions.
Behold, the just shall be requited in the earth: much more the unjust one and the sinning.
My son, fear thou Jehovah and the king: thou shalt not intermingle with those changing:
And your covenant with death was obliterated, and your league with hades shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through and ye. were for a treading down to it
The voice said, Call And he said, What shall I call? All flesh grass, and all its goodness as the flower of the field:
For thus said Jehovah, Ye sold yourselves gratuitously, and ye shall not be redeemed with silver.
Happy they driven out for justice: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens. Happy are ye, when they shall upbraid you, and drive you out, and say every evil word against you, lying, for my sake.
So let your light shine before men, that they see your good works, and praise your Father, him in the heavens.
For this I say to you, Be not anxious about your soul, what ye eat, and what ye drink; nor about your body, what ye put on. Is not the soul more than food, and the body than dress?
And Jesus having seen their faith, says to the paralytic, Child, thy sins have been remitted to thee. And certain of the scribes were sitting there, and discussing in their hearts, read more. Why does this thus speak blasphemies? who can remit sins but the one God And Jesus quickly having known that they discuss in themselves, says to them, Why discuss ye these things in your hearts Why is it easier to say to the paralytic, Sins have been remitted to thee? or to say, Arise, lift up thy couch, and walk? And that ye might know that the Son of man has power to remit sins upon earth, (he says to the paralytic)
And be began to speak to them in parables. A man planted a vineyard, and put a fence round, and digged a winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went abroad. And he sent a servant to the husbandmen in time, that he might receive of the husbandmen from the fruit of the vineyard. read more. And they, taking him, stripped, and sent away empty. And again he sent to them another servant; and having stoned the same they treated in a summary manner, and sent away despised. And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; truly stripping some, and killing some. Yet therefore having one dearly beloved son, and him he sent last to them, saying, That they will be changed by my son. And these husbandmen said with themselves, That this is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our's. And they having taken him, killed, and cast out of the vineyard. Therefore what will the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the hushandmen, and give the vineyard to others. And have ye not read this writing; The stone which the builders disapproved of, this was for the head of the corner: This was of the Lord, and is wonderful in our eyes? And they sought to seize him, and they feared the crowd: for they knew that he spake this parable against them: and having let him go they went away.
This one, surrendered by the fixed counsel and foreknowledge of God, having taken by lawless hands, having fastened, ye slew:
Therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he poured out this, which ye now see and hear.
But God, announced these things beforehand by the mouth of all his prophets, for Christ to suffer, he so completed. Therefore repent, and return, for your sins to be wiped out, so that times of refreshment might come from the face of the Lord; read more. And he send Jesus Christ, before proclaimed to you, Whom heaven must truly receive till time of restoration of all which God spake by the mouth of all his holy prophets from forever.
The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew with your own hands, having hung him upon a tree. This, God exalted, a Chief and Saviour, with his right hand to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
And he enjoined us to proclaim to the people, and to testify that this is he appointed by God, Judge of the living and the dead. To him all the prophets testify, for all believing on him to receive remission of sins through his name.
As also he says in Hosea, I will call not my people my people; and the not loved, loved.
Wherefore? Because not of faith, but as of the works of the law. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone;
Wherefore? Because not of faith, but as of the works of the law. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone; As has been written, Behold I set in Zion a stone of stumbling and rock of offence: and every one believing on him shall not be ashamed.
I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service. And be ye not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, for you to prove what the good, and the pleasing, and the perfected will of God. read more. For I say, by the race given me, to every one being with you, not to entertain a high opinion of one's self above what is fitting to think: but to think to be discreet, as God has divided the measure of faith to each.
And having gifts different according to the grace given us, whether prophecy, according to the due proportion of faith;
Love unfeigned. Hating evil; fastened to good.
Thinking the same towards one another. Not thinking high things but being led by humble things. Be not wise with yourselves.
Let every soul be placed under the protecting powers. For there is no power except from God: and the powers being, were ordered by God.
For he is servant of God to thee for good. And if thou do evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword without order: for he is servant of God, avenging for anger to him doing evil.
Therefore restore debts to all; to whom tribute, tribute; to whom recompense, recompense; to whom fear, fear; to whom honour, honour. Owe ye nothing to none, except to love one another: for he loving another has completed the law.
And having known the grace given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, seeming to be pillars, gave me and Barnabas the right hands of communion; that we for the nations, and they for the circumcision.
And when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to the face, for he was to be rebuked.
We by nature Jews, and not sinners from the nations, Knowing that a man is not justified from the works of the law, but through faith of Jesus Christ, and we believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified from the faith of Christ, and not from the works of the law: therefore from the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. read more. And it; seeking to be justified in Christ, we were found also ourselves sinners, is Christ therefore the servant of sin? It may not be.
Praised be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, he having praised us in every spiritual praise in heavenly things in Christ: As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and blameless before him in love: read more. Having determined us beforehand for adoption as a son by Jesus Christ to him, according to benevolence of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he rendered us acceptable in the beloved. In whom we have redemption by his blood, the letting go of faults, according to the riches of his grace; In which he abounded to us in all wisdom and intelligence; Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his benevolence which he purposed in himself: For the arrangement of the completion of the times, to unite in a whole all things in Christ, both the things in the heavens, and the things upon earth; in him: In whom also we were cast by lot, determined beforehand according to the purpose of him performing all things according to the counsel of his will: For us to be to the praise of his glory, who before hoped in Christ. In whom ye also, having heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation: in whom also having believed, ye were sealed by the holy Spirit of solemn promise, Which is the pledge of our inheritance for the redemption of the acquisition, to the praise of his glory.
Which he performed in Christ, having raised him from the dead, and he sat on his right hand in the heavenlies, Above every beginning, and authority, and power, and property, and every name named, not only in this life, but in that about to be: read more. And placed all things under his, feet, and gave him head over all things to the church,
For by him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. Wherefore then are ye no more foreigners and sojourners, but fellow-citizens of the holy, and the household of God; read more. Built upon the foundation of the sent, and of the prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the corner stone; In whom all the building fitted together increases into a holy temple in the Lord: In whom also ye are builded together for the dwelling of God in the Spirit.
Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as now has been revealed to his holy sent and to the prophets by the Spirit:
That it might now be made known to beginnings and powers in the heavenlies by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
Wherefore he says, Having ascended into height, he made captivity captive, and gave gifts to men. (And so having ascended, what is it except that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? read more. He having descended is the same having ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill up all things.) And truly he gave the sent; and the prophets; and the bearers of good tidings; and the shepherds, and the teachers; For the adjusting of the holy, for the work of the service, for the building up of the body of Christ: Until we all arrive to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the perfect man, to the measure of age of the filling up of Christ. That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit; And speaking the truth in love, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ: From whom all the body fitted together and joined together by every touch of the expenditure, according to the energy in measure of one of each part, makes the increase of the body to the building up of itself in love. Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind, Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart; Who no longer having had feeling delivered themselves to licentiousness, to the work of all uncleanness in overreaching.
Women, yield ye obedience to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. read more. But as the church is subjected to Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your own wives, as also Christ loved the church, and delivered himself up for it; That he might consecrate it, having cleansed by the washing of water in the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it be holy and blameless. So ought men to love their own wives as their own bodies. He loving his wife, loves himself. For none at any time hates his own flesh; but brings it up and cherishes it, as also the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak to Christ and to the church. But ye also altogether, let each so love his own wife as himself: and the wife that she fear her husband.
Servants, listen to lords according to the flesh, with fear and tremor, in simplicity of your heart, as to Christ;
(Since he must have suffered many times from the foundation of the world:) but now once at the termination of the times for the annulling of sin by the sacrifice of himself has he been shown clearly.
Having deemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than treasures in Egypt: for he looked to the payment of reward.
Wherefore we also having such a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, having laid down every weight, and sin easily captivating, by patience we should run the race set before us, Looking in the distance to Jesus the author and completer of the faith; who for the joy laid before him endured the cross, having despised the shame, and sat down on the right hand of the throne of God. read more. For reckon over him having endured such contradiction of the sinful against himself, lest being harassed, ye labor in your souls.
Therefore we should come to him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
Put you in proper order in every good work for doing his will, doing in you the thing pleasing before him, by Jesus Christ; to whom glory for the time of times. Amen.
Put you in proper order in every good work for doing his will, doing in you the thing pleasing before him, by Jesus Christ; to whom glory for the time of times. Amen.
James, servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion, health. Deem all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials;
For the sun sprang up with heat, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell out, and the decorum of its face was destroyed: so also shall the rich be dried up in his goings. Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him. read more. Let none say being tempted, that I am tempted of God: for God is not tempted of evils, and he tempts none: And each is tempted from his own lust, being drawn out, and decoyed. So then lust conceiving, brings forth sin: and sin performed, produces death. Be not led astray, my dearly beloved brethren. Every good donation and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom not one change, or shadow of turning. Having willed he brought forth by the word of truth, for us to be some first fruit of his creatures. Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger: For man s anger works not the justice of God. Wherefore having put away all sordid avarice, and excess of wickedness, in meekness receive the implanted word, able to save your souls. And be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
And he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
Be ye humbled before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Peter, sent of Jesus Christ, to the chosen strangers of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the consecration of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied.
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the consecration of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied.
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the consecration of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied. Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy having begotten us again to a living hope, by the rising up of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy having begotten us again to a living hope, by the rising up of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy having begotten us again to a living hope, by the rising up of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Praised the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy having begotten us again to a living hope, by the rising up of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, kept in the heavens for us,
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, kept in the heavens for us,
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, kept in the heavens for us, Who by the power of God watching ourselves by faith to salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Who by the power of God watching ourselves by faith to salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Who by the power of God watching ourselves by faith to salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Who by the power of God watching ourselves by faith to salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. By which ye are transported with joy, now for a little, (if it is necessary,) having grieved in various temptations:
By which ye are transported with joy, now for a little, (if it is necessary,) having grieved in various temptations:
By which ye are transported with joy, now for a little, (if it is necessary,) having grieved in various temptations: That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
That the proof of your faith, much more precious than perishing gold, and being tried by fire, might be found to praise and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ: Whom not having seen, ye love; in whom, now not seeing, but believing, ye are transported with joy unalterable, and highly valued:
Whom not having seen, ye love; in whom, now not seeing, but believing, ye are transported with joy unalterable, and highly valued:
Whom not having seen, ye love; in whom, now not seeing, but believing, ye are transported with joy unalterable, and highly valued:
Whom not having seen, ye love; in whom, now not seeing, but believing, ye are transported with joy unalterable, and highly valued:
Whom not having seen, ye love; in whom, now not seeing, but believing, ye are transported with joy unalterable, and highly valued: Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of souls.
Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of souls.
Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of souls.
Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of souls. For which salvation the prophets sought and inquired anxiously, they having prophesied of the grace to you:
For which salvation the prophets sought and inquired anxiously, they having prophesied of the grace to you:
For which salvation the prophets sought and inquired anxiously, they having prophesied of the grace to you: Searching for whom or what time the Spirit of Christ which in them manifested, testifying beforehand the sufferings to Christ, and the glories after these.
Searching for whom or what time the Spirit of Christ which in them manifested, testifying beforehand the sufferings to Christ, and the glories after these.
Searching for whom or what time the Spirit of Christ which in them manifested, testifying beforehand the sufferings to Christ, and the glories after these.
Searching for whom or what time the Spirit of Christ which in them manifested, testifying beforehand the sufferings to Christ, and the glories after these. To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were serving these things, which now have been again proclaimed to you by them having announced the good news in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven; into which angels eagerly desire to stoop and creep.
To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were serving these things, which now have been again proclaimed to you by them having announced the good news in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven; into which angels eagerly desire to stoop and creep.
To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were serving these things, which now have been again proclaimed to you by them having announced the good news in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven; into which angels eagerly desire to stoop and creep.
To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were serving these things, which now have been again proclaimed to you by them having announced the good news in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven; into which angels eagerly desire to stoop and creep.
To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were serving these things, which now have been again proclaimed to you by them having announced the good news in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven; into which angels eagerly desire to stoop and creep. Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, living abstemiously, hope perfectly upon the grace brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, living abstemiously, hope perfectly upon the grace brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, living abstemiously, hope perfectly upon the grace brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ; As children of obedience, not as formerly conforming yourselves to eager desire in your ignorance:
As children of obedience, not as formerly conforming yourselves to eager desire in your ignorance: But according to the holy one calling you, also should ye yourselves be holy in all turning back; read more. For it has been written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
For it has been written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. And if ye call upon the Father, judging without distinction of persons according to the work of each, in fear be occupied in the time of your sojourning:
And if ye call upon the Father, judging without distinction of persons according to the work of each, in fear be occupied in the time of your sojourning: Knowing that not with corruptible things, silver and gold, were ye redeemed from your vain mode of life transmitted from your fathers
Knowing that not with corruptible things, silver and gold, were ye redeemed from your vain mode of life transmitted from your fathers
Knowing that not with corruptible things, silver and gold, were ye redeemed from your vain mode of life transmitted from your fathers
Knowing that not with corruptible things, silver and gold, were ye redeemed from your vain mode of life transmitted from your fathers
Knowing that not with corruptible things, silver and gold, were ye redeemed from your vain mode of life transmitted from your fathers
Knowing that not with corruptible things, silver and gold, were ye redeemed from your vain mode of life transmitted from your fathers But with precious blood, as of a lamb blameless and spotless, of Christ:
But with precious blood, as of a lamb blameless and spotless, of Christ:
But with precious blood, as of a lamb blameless and spotless, of Christ:
But with precious blood, as of a lamb blameless and spotless, of Christ: Known truly before the foundation of the world, and made manifest in the last times for you,
Known truly before the foundation of the world, and made manifest in the last times for you,
Known truly before the foundation of the world, and made manifest in the last times for you,
Known truly before the foundation of the world, and made manifest in the last times for you, Who by him believing in God, having raised him from the dead, and having given him glory; that your faith and hope should be in God.
Who by him believing in God, having raised him from the dead, and having given him glory; that your faith and hope should be in God. Having purified your souls in the hearing of the truth by the Spirit to unfeigned brotherly love, out of pure hearts love ye one another cordially: read more. Begotten again, not of corrupted seed, but uncorrupted, by the word of God, living and remaining forever.
Begotten again, not of corrupted seed, but uncorrupted, by the word of God, living and remaining forever.
Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies,
Wherefore also it holds in the writing, Behold, I place in Zion a corner stone, chosen, highly valued: and he believing on him shall not be ashamed.
Wherefore also it holds in the writing, Behold, I place in Zion a corner stone, chosen, highly valued: and he believing on him shall not be ashamed.
And a stone of stumble, and rock of offence, they disbelieving the word stumble: to which also they were set.
Who once not a people, and now the people of God: they not commiserated, and now commiserated.
Who once not a people, and now the people of God: they not commiserated, and now commiserated.
Who once not a people, and now the people of God: they not commiserated, and now commiserated.
Who once not a people, and now the people of God: they not commiserated, and now commiserated. Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul;
Dearly beloved, I beseech as sojourners and strangers, to keep off from fleshly passions, which war against the soul; Having your turning back good in the nations: that, in what they speak against you as doing evil, from good works, they having beheld, might praise God in the day of inspection.
Having your turning back good in the nations: that, in what they speak against you as doing evil, from good works, they having beheld, might praise God in the day of inspection.
Having your turning back good in the nations: that, in what they speak against you as doing evil, from good works, they having beheld, might praise God in the day of inspection.
Having your turning back good in the nations: that, in what they speak against you as doing evil, from good works, they having beheld, might praise God in the day of inspection. Be subjected to every creation proceeding from man on account of the Lord: whether to the king, as having superiority;
Be subjected to every creation proceeding from man on account of the Lord: whether to the king, as having superiority; Or to chiefs, as sent by him for the punishing of them doing evil, and the praise of them doing good.
Or to chiefs, as sent by him for the punishing of them doing evil, and the praise of them doing good. (For so is the will of God, those doing good to silence the want of knowledge of the foolish men:)
(For so is the will of God, those doing good to silence the want of knowledge of the foolish men:) As free, and as not having liberty for a covering of wickedness, but as the servants of God.
As free, and as not having liberty for a covering of wickedness, but as the servants of God. Honour all. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Honour all. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. Servants being subjected to masters in all fear; not only to the good and equitable, but also to the crooked. read more. For this is grace, if any by consciousness of God bear grief, suffering unjustly. For what glory, if, sinning and being cuffed, ye endure? but if, doing good, and suffering, ye endure, this is grace with God. For to this were ye called: for also Christ suffered for you, leaving behind to you an underwriting, that ye should follow upon his footsteps: Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth:
Who did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth: Who, being reviled, reviled not back; suffering, he threatened not; and delivered to him judging justly;
Who, being reviled, reviled not back; suffering, he threatened not; and delivered to him judging justly; Who himself bear up our sins in his body upon the wood, that we, removed from sins, should live to justice: by whose bloody mark ye were healed.
Who himself bear up our sins in his body upon the wood, that we, removed from sins, should live to justice: by whose bloody mark ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray; but now have turned about to the Shepherd and inspector of your souls.
Likewise, wives being subject to their own husbands; that also, if any believe not the word, by the turning back of wives might be gained without the word; Having beheld in fear your pure turning back. read more. Whose outside let it not be of the interweaving of hairs, and of putting round of gold, or of putting on of garments, the arrangement; But the hidden man of the heart, in the uncorruptedness of a mild and quiet spirit, which is before God of great price. For so once also the holy women, hoping in God, arranged themselves, being subjected to their own husbands: (As Sara listened to Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye are,) doing good, and not fearing any terror. Men, likewise, dwelling together according to knowledge, as showing honour to the weaker vessel, pertaining to woman, and as co-heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers be not cut off. And finally, all unanimous, suffering together, loving the brethren, having good bowels, an affectionate disposition: Not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing: and on the contrary prayer; knowing that to this were ye called, that ye might inherit praise. For he wishing to love life, and to see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit:
For he wishing to love life, and to see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit:
For he wishing to love life, and to see good days, let him cause his tongue to cease from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit: Let him bend away from evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and follow it. read more. For the eyes of the Lord upon the just, and his ears to their prayer: and the face of the Lord against them doing evil.
For the eyes of the Lord upon the just, and his ears to their prayer: and the face of the Lord against them doing evil. And who going to injure you, if ye be imitators of good?
And who going to injure you, if ye be imitators of good?
And who going to injure you, if ye be imitators of good?
And who going to injure you, if ye be imitators of good? But if ye also suffer for justice, happy are ye: be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled;
But if ye also suffer for justice, happy are ye: be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled;
But if ye also suffer for justice, happy are ye: be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled; And consecrate the Lord God in your hearts: and being ready always for a justification to every one asking you the word of the hope in you with meekness and fear:
And consecrate the Lord God in your hearts: and being ready always for a justification to every one asking you the word of the hope in you with meekness and fear: Having a good consciousness; that, in what they speak evil against you, as doing evil, they threatening your good turning round in Christ should be ashamed.
Having a good consciousness; that, in what they speak evil against you, as doing evil, they threatening your good turning round in Christ should be ashamed.
Having a good consciousness; that, in what they speak evil against you, as doing evil, they threatening your good turning round in Christ should be ashamed. Fur better, doing good, if the will of God will, to suffer, than doing evil.
Fur better, doing good, if the will of God will, to suffer, than doing evil. For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just one for the unjust, that he might bring us near to God, truly put to death in the flesh, and made alive by the Spirit:
For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just one for the unjust, that he might bring us near to God, truly put to death in the flesh, and made alive by the Spirit:
For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just one for the unjust, that he might bring us near to God, truly put to death in the flesh, and made alive by the Spirit: In which also having gone, he proclaimed to the spirits in prison;
In which also having gone, he proclaimed to the spirits in prison; They having been once unbelieving, when the longsuffering of God waited in Noah's days, the ark being prepared, in which few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
They having been once unbelieving, when the longsuffering of God waited in Noah's days, the ark being prepared, in which few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
They having been once unbelieving, when the longsuffering of God waited in Noah's days, the ark being prepared, in which few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. By which also the figure, immersion, now saves us (not by laying aside of the filth of the flesh, but the question of a good. consciousness toward God,) by the rising up of Jesus Christ: read more. Who is on the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers subjected to him.
Who is on the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers subjected to him.
Therefore Christ having suffered for us in the flesh,, also arm ye yourselves with the same mind: (for he having suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;)
Therefore Christ having suffered for us in the flesh,, also arm ye yourselves with the same mind: (for he having suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;) That no more to the eager desires of men, but to the will of God, should he live the remaining time in the flesh.
That no more to the eager desires of men, but to the will of God, should he live the remaining time in the flesh. For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries:
For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries: In which they are astonished, you not running together in the same pouring out of lavish expense, blaspheming:
In which they are astonished, you not running together in the same pouring out of lavish expense, blaspheming: Who shall return the word to him holding in readiness to judge the living and the dead. read more. For also for this was the good news announced to the dead, that truly they might be judged according to men in the flesh, and live according to God in the spirit. And the end of all has drawn near: be ye therefore of sound mind, and live abstemiously in prayers.
And the end of all has drawn near: be ye therefore of sound mind, and live abstemiously in prayers.
And the end of all has drawn near: be ye therefore of sound mind, and live abstemiously in prayers. More than all having intent love among yourselves: for love shall cover a multitude of sins. read more. Being hospitable to one another without murmurings. As each received favor, serving the same among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any speak, as the oracles of God; if any serve, as of the strength which God furnishes: that in all God might be praised by Jesus Christ, in whom is the glory and strength for the time of times. Amen. Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you:
Dearly beloved, be not astonished at the refining of fire in you, being for trial to you, as a strange thing happening to you: But, inasmuch as ye participate in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice; that also, in the revelation of his glory, ye might rejoice, transported with joy. read more. If ye be reproached in the name of Christ, ye happy; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: by them truly he is defamed, and by you he is praised.
If ye be reproached in the name of Christ, ye happy; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: by them truly he is defamed, and by you he is praised.
If ye be reproached in the name of Christ, ye happy; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: by them truly he is defamed, and by you he is praised.
If ye be reproached in the name of Christ, ye happy; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: by them truly he is defamed, and by you he is praised. For let not any of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or doing evil, or as an inspector, in what pertains to others.
For let not any of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or doing evil, or as an inspector, in what pertains to others.
For let not any of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or doing evil, or as an inspector, in what pertains to others. And if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him praise God in this portion.
And if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him praise God in this portion. For the time for judgment to have begun from the house of God: and if first from us, what the end of them not believing the good tidings of God? read more. And if the just one with difficulty be saved, where shall the irreligious and sinful appear Therefore let them also suffering according to the will of God commit their souls in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.
Therefore let them also suffering according to the will of God commit their souls in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.
Therefore let them also suffering according to the will of God commit their souls in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.
Therefore let them also suffering according to the will of God commit their souls in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.
The elders among you I beseech, a fellow elder, and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a participator of the glory which is about to be revealed:
The elders among you I beseech, a fellow elder, and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a participator of the glory which is about to be revealed: Tend the flock of God which among you, inspecting, not by force, but voluntarily; neither occupied in sordid gain, but of a ready will; read more. Neither as ruling over the portions obtained by lot, but being types of the flock. And the chief Shepherd having been manifested, ye shall be attired with an unfading crown of glory. Likewise, ye younger, be subjected to the elders. And all being subject to one another, be wrapped up in humility: for God opposes the proud, and gives grace to the humble.
Likewise, ye younger, be subjected to the elders. And all being subject to one another, be wrapped up in humility: for God opposes the proud, and gives grace to the humble. Therefore be humbled under the strong hand of God, that he might lift you up) in due measure:
Therefore be humbled under the strong hand of God, that he might lift you up) in due measure:
Therefore be humbled under the strong hand of God, that he might lift you up) in due measure:
Therefore be humbled under the strong hand of God, that he might lift you up) in due measure:
Therefore be humbled under the strong hand of God, that he might lift you up) in due measure: Having cast all your care upon him; for to him is the care for you.
Having cast all your care upon him; for to him is the care for you. Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down:
Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down:
Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down: Whom resist firm in the faith, knowing that the same of sufferings are completed by your brotherhood in the world.
Whom resist firm in the faith, knowing that the same of sufferings are completed by your brotherhood in the world.
Whom resist firm in the faith, knowing that the same of sufferings are completed by your brotherhood in the world.
Whom resist firm in the faith, knowing that the same of sufferings are completed by your brotherhood in the world. And the God of all grace, having called us to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, may he put you in proper order, having suffered a little time, may he support you, make firm, lay the foundation.
And the God of all grace, having called us to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, may he put you in proper order, having suffered a little time, may he support you, make firm, lay the foundation.
And the God of all grace, having called us to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, may he put you in proper order, having suffered a little time, may he support you, make firm, lay the foundation. To him the glory and the strength for the time of times. Amen.
To him the glory and the strength for the time of times. Amen. By Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, I wrote briefly, beseeching, and bearing testimony this to be the true grace of God in which ye stand. read more. The chosen together in Babylon, greet you; also Marcus my son. Greet one another in a kiss of love. Peace to all you which in Christ Jesus. Amen.
Morish
This was addressed to believing Jews dispersed in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia. It was apparently sent from Babylon on the Euphrates, where many Jews were located. There is nothing in the epistle itself that fixes its date: but it is generally dated A.D. 60 to 63. The teaching of the epistle is based upon a living hope by the resurrection of Christ, in contrast to the portion of the Jews on earth. Believers are contemplated as strangers and pilgrims, salvation being regarded in its completeness as future, soul salvation being the point of consequence in the present, in contrast to temporal deliverances. The thought of a 'spiritual house' composed of living stones, in 1 Peter 2 connects the epistle with the revelation given to Peter in Matt. 16
Smith
Peter, First Epistle of,
The external evidence of authenticity of this epistle is of the strongest kind and the internal is equally strong. It was addressed to the churches of Asia Minor which had for the most part been founded by Paul and his companions, Supposing it to have been written at Babylon,
it ia a probable conjecture that Silvanus, By whom it was transmitted to those churches, had joined Peter after a tour of visitation, and that his account of the condition of the Christians in those districts determined the apostle to write the epistle. (On the question of this epistle having been written at Babylon commentators differ. "Some refer it to the famous Babylon in Asia, which after its destruction was still inhabited by a Jewish colony; others refer it to Babylon in Egypt, now called Old Cairo; still others understand it mystically of heathen Rome, in which sense 'Babylon' is certainly used in the Apocalypse of John." --Schaff.) The objects of the epistle were --
1. To comfort and strengthen the Christians in a season of severe trial.
2. To enforce the practical and spiritual duties involved in their calling
3. To warn them against special temptations attached to their position.
4. To remove all doubt as to the soundness and completeness of the religious system which they had already received. Such an attestation was especially needed by the Hebrew Christians, who were to appeal from Paul's authority to that of the elder apostles, and above all to that of Peter. The last, which is perhaps the very principal object, is kept in view throughout the epistle, and is distinctly stated
The harmony of such teaching with that of Paul is sufficiently obvious. Peter belongs to the school, or to speak more correctly, is the leader of the school, which at once vindicates the unity of the law and the gospel, and puts the superiority of the latter on its true basis-that of spiritual development. The date of this epistle is uncertain, but Alford believes it to have been written between A.D. 63 and 67.
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By Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, I wrote briefly, beseeching, and bearing testimony this to be the true grace of God in which ye stand. The chosen together in Babylon, greet you; also Marcus my son.