Chapter
1
- 1:1
- Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered
throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
- 1:2
- 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.
- 1:3
- Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which
according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto
a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- 1:4
- To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that
fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
- 1:5
- Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time.
- 1:6
- Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need
be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
- 1:7
- That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than
of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might
be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of
Jesus Christ:
- 1:8
- Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see
him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and
full of glory:
- 1:9
- Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your
souls.
- 1:10
- Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched
diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto
you:
- 1:11
- Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ
which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand
the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
- 1:12
- Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but
unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported
unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with
the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels
desire to look into.
- 1:13
- Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope
to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the
revelation of Jesus Christ;
- 1:14
- As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according
to the former lusts in your ignorance:
- 1:15
- But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in
all manner of conversation;
- 1:16
- Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
- 1:17
- 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:
- 1:18
- Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible
things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received
by tradition from your fathers;
- 1:19
- But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot:
- 1:20
- Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the
world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
- 1:21
- Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the
dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be
in God.
- 1:22
- Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through
the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye
love one another with a pure heart fervently:
- 1:23
- Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
- 1:24
- For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the
flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof
falleth away:
- 1:25
- But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the
word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
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