1 Peter 1:2

Wesley

1 Peter 1:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

Elect

The foreknowledge

Romans 11:2

Sanctification

2 Thessalonians 2:13

Unto

Sprinkling

Hebrews 9:19

Hebrews 11:28

Hebrews 12:24

Be

2 Peter 1:2

Jude 1:2

General references

1 Corinthians 1:3

Philippians 1:2

Jude 1:2

Bible References

Elect

But ye are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a purchased people, that ye may shew forth the virtues of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Who in time past were not a people, but now are the people of God;

And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened.

And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect's sake whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened those days.

And shall not God vindicate his own elect, who cry to him day and night, though he bear long with them?

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you that ye may go and bear fruit, and your fruit may remain; that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated, conformable to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.

God hath not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel,

As he hath chosen us through him, before the foundation of the world, that we might be holy and blameless before him in love,

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering:

Therefore I suffer all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is through Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

Paul a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in things concerning the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is after godliness,

The elder unto the elect Kuria and her children, whom I love in the truth, and not I only, but likewise all who know the truth, For the truth's sake,

The foreknowledge

Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands, have crucified and slain:

Known unto God are all his works from eternity.

For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated, conformable to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.

And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, whom he had before prepared for glory?

God hath not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel,

Sanctification

And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, who is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among them that are sanctified.

That I should be the servant of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministring the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles may be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to Salvation, thro' sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

Unto

Having purified your souls by obeying the truth thro' the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another with a pure heart fervently:

By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith in all nations for his name, Among whom are ye also, the called of Jesus Christ:

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the flesh, ye shall live.

For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I rejoice therefore on your behalf; but I would have you wise with regard to that which is good, and simple with regard to that which is evil.

Destroying reasonings, and every high thing which exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

became the author of eternal salvation to all that obey him,

Sprinkling

For when Moses had spoken all the commandment according to the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wooll, and hyssop, and the book itself,

By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the first born should touch them.

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than that of Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh:

Be

Grace and peace be multiplied unto you, thro' the knowledge of God, and of Jesus, our Lord;

and called, Mercy unto you, and peace, and love be multiplied.

General references

Grace be unto you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace be unto you, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

and called, Mercy unto you, and peace, and love be multiplied.