Most Popular Bible Verses in 1 Peter

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For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold,

22

Coming to Him, a living stone—rejected by men but chosen and valuable to God—

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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ:

To the temporary residents dispersed in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen

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Dear friends, don’t be surprised when the fiery ordeal comes among you to test you as if something unusual were happening to you.

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For this reason the gospel was also preached to those who are now dead, so that, although they might be judged by men in the fleshly realm, they might live by God in the spiritual realm.

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just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You have become her children when you do what is good and are not frightened by anything alarming.

44

Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, equip yourselves also with the same resolve—because the one who suffered in the flesh has finished with sin

48

Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that would come to you searched and carefully investigated.

49

For the time has come for judgment to begin with God’s household, and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?

50

You love Him, though you have not seen Him. And though not seeing Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with inexpressible and glorious joy,

57

who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah while an ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people—were saved through water.

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but the word of the Lord endures forever.

And this is the word that was preached as the gospel to you.

63

The dominion belongs to Him forever. Amen.

69

I have written you this brief letter through Silvanus (I know him to be a faithful brother) to encourage you and to testify that this is the true grace of God. Take your stand in it!

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when they observe your pure, reverent lives.

73

None of you, however, should suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or a meddler.

74

And if a righteous person is saved with difficulty,
what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?

76

So they are surprised that you don’t plunge with them into the same flood of wild living—and they slander you.

77

In that state He also went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison

80

For it is contained in Scripture:

Look! I lay a stone in Zion,
a chosen and honored cornerstone,
and the one who believes in Him
will never be put to shame!

88

But if anyone suffers as a “Christian,” he should not be ashamed but should glorify God in having that name.

90

They inquired into what time or what circumstances the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating when He testified in advance to the messianic sufferings and the glories that would follow.

91

So honor will come to you who believe, but for the unbelieving,

The stone that the builders rejected—
this One has become the cornerstone,

95

For it brings favor if, mindful of God’s will, someone endures grief from suffering unjustly.

96

when He was reviled,
He did not revile in return;
when He was suffering,
He did not threaten
but entrusted Himself to the One who judges justly.

99

and

A stone to stumble over,
and a rock to trip over.


They stumble because they disobey the message; they were destined for this.