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through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>to <i>obtain</i> an inheritance <i>which is</i> imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>so that the proof of your faith, <i>being</i> more precious than gold which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that <i>would come</i> to you made careful searches and inquiries, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaventhings into which angels long to look. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober <i>in spirit,</i> fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts <i>which were yours</i> in your ignorance, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all <i>your</i> behavior; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>because it is written, Y<font size="1">OU SHALL BE HOLY</font>, <font size="1">FOR</font> I <font size="1">AM HOLY</font>. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each ones work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay <i>on earth;</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, <i>the blood</i> of Christ. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, <i>that is,</i> through the living and enduring word of God. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>For,<br>         A<font size="1">LL FLESH IS LIKE GRASS</font>,<br>         A<font size="1">ND ALL ITS GLORY LIKE THE FLOWER OF GRASS</font>.<br>         T<font size="1">HE GRASS WITHERS</font>,<br>         A<font size="1">ND THE FLOWER FALLS OFF</font>, <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>B<font size="1">UT THE WORD OF THE</font> L<font size="1">ORD ENDURES FOREVER</font>.<br>         And this is the word which was preached to you. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_peter/1.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_peter/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/1_peter/1.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his great mercy, has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from among the dead,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_peter/1.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_peter/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again to a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/1_peter/1.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in His great mercy has begotten us anew to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_peter/1.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_peter/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/november_8_morning.htm">November 8 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.--I THES. 5:8. 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.--Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/november_8_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/sojourners_of_the_dispersion.htm">Sojourners of the Dispersion</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered ...'--1 Peter i. 1. The words rendered 'strangers scattered' are literally 'sojourners of the Dispersion,' and are so rendered in the Revised Version. The Dispersion was the recognised name for the Jews dwelling in Gentile countries; as, for instance, it is employed in John's Gospel, when the people in Jerusalem say, 'Whither will this man go that we shall not find Him? Will he go to the Dispersion amongst the Greeks?' Obviously, therefore <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/sojourners_of_the_dispersion.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/hope_perfectly.htm">Hope Perfectly</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'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 Peter i. 13. Christianity has transformed hope, and given it a new importance, by opening to it a new world to move in, and supplying to it new guarantees to rest on. There is something very remarkable in the prominence given to hope in the New Testament, and in the power ascribed to it to order a noble life. Paul goes so far as to say that <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/hope_perfectly.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/the_family_likeness.htm">The Family Likeness</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'As He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy, in all manner of conversation.'--1 Peter i. 15. That is the sum of religion--an all-comprehensive precept which includes a great deal more than the world's morality, and which changes the coldness of that into something blessed, by referring all our purity to the Lord that called us. One may well wonder where a Galilean fisherman got the impulse that lifted him to such a height; one may well wonder that he ventured to address such wide, absolute <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/the_family_likeness.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/father_and_judge.htm">Father and Judge</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'If ye call on Him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear.'--1 Peter i. 17. 'If ye call on Him as Father,' when ye pray, say, 'Our Father which art in heaven.' One can scarcely help supposing that the Apostle is here, as in several other places in his letter, alluding to words that are stamped ineffaceably upon his memory, because they had dropped from Christ's lips. At all events, whether there is here a distinct <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/father_and_judge.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/purifying_the_soul.htm">Purifying the Soul</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'... ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren.'--1 Peter i. 22. Note these three subsidiary clauses introduced respectively by 'in,' 'through,' 'unto.' They give the means, the Bestower, and the issue of the purity of soul. The Revised Version, following good authorities, omits the clause, 'through the Spirit.' It may possibly be originally a marginal gloss of some scribe who was nervous about Peter's orthodoxy, which finally found its <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/purifying_the_soul.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/by_through_unto.htm">By, Through, Unto</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'... Kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.'--1 Peter i. 5. The Revised Version substitutes 'guarded' for 'kept,' and the alteration, though slight, is important, for it not only more accurately preserves the meaning of the word employed, but it retains the military metaphor which is in it. The force of the expression will appear if I refer, in a sentence, to other cases in which it is employed in the New Testament. For instance, we read that <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/by_through_unto.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/sorrowful_yet_always_rejoicing.htm">Sorrowful, yet Always Rejoicing</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations.'--1 Peter i. 6. You will remember the great saying of our Lord's in the Sermon on the Mount, in which He makes the last of the beatitudes, that which He pronounces upon His disciples, when men shall revile them and persecute them, and speak all manner of evil falsely against them for His sake, and bids them rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is their reward in Heaven. Now it <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/sorrowful_yet_always_rejoicing.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/the_true_gold_and_its.htm">The True Gold and Its Testing</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'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 ...'--1 Peter i. 7. The Apostle is fond of that word 'precious.' In both his letters he uses it as an epithet for diverse things. According to one translation, he speaks of Christ as 'precious to you which believe.' He certainly speaks of 'the precious blood of Christ,' and of 'exceeding great and precious promises,' and here in my text, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/the_true_gold_and_its.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/joy_in_believing.htm">Joy in Believing</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'In Whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.'--1 Peter i. 8. The Apostle has just previously been speaking about the great and glorious things which are to come to Christians on the appearing of Jesus Christ, and that naturally suggests to him the thought of the condition of believing souls during the period of the Lord's absence and comparative concealment. Having lifted his readers' hopes to that great Future, when they would attain to <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/joy_in_believing.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/christ_and_his_cross_the.htm">Christ and his Cross the Centre of the Universe</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently ... the things which are now reported unto you ... which things the angels desire to look into.'--1 Peter i. 10, 11, 12. I have detached these three clauses from their surroundings, not because I desire to treat them fragmentarily, but because we thereby throw into stronger relief the writer's purpose to bring out the identity of the Old and the New Revelation, the fact that Christ and His sufferings are the centre of the world's <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_ephesians_peter/christ_and_his_cross_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians, Peter,John</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_peter/1-3.htm">1 Peter 1:3 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_peter/1-3.htm">1 Peter 1:3 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_peter/1-3.htm">1 Peter 1:3 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_peter/1-3.htm">1 Peter 1:3 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_peter/1-3.htm">1 Peter 1:3 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/1_peter/1-3.htm">1 Peter 1:3 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/1_peter/1-3.htm">1 Peter 1:3 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_peter/1-2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Peter 1:2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Peter 1:2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_peter/1-4.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Peter 1:4"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Peter 1:4" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/1_peter/1-3.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>