1 Peter 1:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

Call

Who

Pass

In fear

General references

Acts 5:11

Romans 2:11

Bible References

Call

For then do I turn unto peoples a pure lip, To call all of them by the name of Jehovah, To serve Him with one shoulder.

thus therefore pray ye: 'Our Father who art in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name.

'Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him,

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Who

for Jehovah your God -- He is God of the gods, and Lord of the lords; God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful; who accepteth not persons, nor taketh a bribe;

and now, let fear of Jehovah be upon you, observe and do, for there is not with Jehovah our God perverseness, and acceptance of faces, and taking of a bribe.'

That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands are all of them.

and they send to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, 'Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and the way of God in truth thou dost teach, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men;

And Peter having opened his mouth, said, 'Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons,

and glory, and honour, and peace, to every one who is working the good, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

And from those who were esteemed to be something -- whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me -- the face of man God accepteth not, for -- to me those esteemed did add nothing,

And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.

and he who is doing unrighteously shall receive what he did unrighteously, and there is no acceptance of persons.

Pass

And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, 'The days of the years of my sojournings are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'

for sojourners we are before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow are our days on the land, and there is none abiding.

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And to my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I am with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.

In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth,

In fear

Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

The wise is fearing and turning from evil, And a fool is transgressing and is confident.

O the happiness of a man fearing continually, And whoso is hardening his heart falleth into evil.

by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;

having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, --

Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;

So that, my beloved, as ye always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,

We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;

General references

and great fear came upon all the assembly, and upon all who heard these things.

For there is no acceptance of faces with God,