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1st Epistle of Peter 1
1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the
strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia,
Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
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.
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,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled,
and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for
you,
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith
unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last
time.
6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a
season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through
manifold temptations:
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:
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:
9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the
salvation of your souls.
10 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired
and searched diligently, who prophesied of the
grace that should come unto you:
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.
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.
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;
14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves
according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be
ye holy in all manner of conversation;
16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am
holy.
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:
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;
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a
lamb without blemish and without spot:
20 Who verily was foreordained before the
foundation of the world, but was manifest in these
last times for you,
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.
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:
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but
of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth
and abideth for ever.
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:
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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