1 Peter 1:2

Worsley

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 generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should declare the glories of Him, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

And unless those days be shortened, no one would be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened.

And if the Lord did not shorten those days, none could escape: but for the sake of the elect, whom He hath chosen, He hath shortened those days.

and will not God do justice for his elect that cry to Him day and night, though He bear long with them.

Ye did not first choose me, but I chose you, and have appointed you to go forth, and bear fruit, and that your fruit should be lasting: that whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name, He may give it you.

for those whom he foreknew, He also predetermined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that He might be as the first-born among many brethren: and whom He before ordained, these He also called;

God hath not cast off his people, whom He foreknew. Do ye not know what the scripture saith of Elias? how he complains to God against Israel,

according as he hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unblameable before Him in love:

Put on therefore, as the elect of God holy and beloved, bowels of mercy, benignity, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering;

Therefore I submit to every thing for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is by Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

Paul a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for promoting the faith of God's chosen people, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness:

The elder unto the excellent Lady, and her children, whom I love in truth: and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth;

The foreknowledge

(as ye yourselves also know,) Him being given up by the determinate counsel and fore-knowlege of God ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.

Now all his works are known unto God from the beginning of the world:

for those whom he foreknew, He also predetermined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that He might be as the first-born among many brethren: and whom He before ordained, these He also called;

and that He might make known the riches of his glory in the vessels of mercy, which He hath prepared for glory?

God hath not cast off his people, whom He foreknew. Do ye not know what the scripture saith of Elias? how he complains to God against Israel,

Sanctification

And now, my brethren, I recommend you to God, and to the word of his grace: who is able to edify you, and to give you an inheritance among all that are sanctified.

that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, administring the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the holy Spirit.

But ye are of Him in Christ Jesus, who from God is made unto us wisdom, 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 ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord; because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth:

Unto

Having therefore purified your souls by obedience to the truth, through the Spirit, to brotherly love unfeigned, love one another with a pure heart fervently:

by whom we have received grace and apostleship to preach the obedience of faith for his name's sake, to all nations;

for if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if by the Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

For your obedience is come to the knowledge of all: and therefore I rejoice on your account; but yet I would have you wise to that which is good, and simple as to that which is evil.

destroying false reasonings, and every height that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and captivating every thought to the obedience of Christ.

He became the author of eternal salvation to all that obey Him:

Sprinkling

for when every command was spoken according to the law, by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the book and all the people,

By faith he observed the passover and sprinkling of the blood, that he, who destroyed the first-born of the Egyptians, might not touch them.

and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than Abel.

Be

grace and peace be multiplied unto you, in the acknowledgement of God, and of Jesus our Lord;

mercy, and peace, and love be multiplied unto you.

General references

grace and peace be to you from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ.

grace be unto you, and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

mercy, and peace, and love be multiplied unto you.