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in whom, now not seeing, but believing, ye are transported with joy unalterable, and highly valued: <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Receiving the end of your faith, the salvation of souls.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For which salvation the prophets sought and inquired anxiously, they having prophesied of the grace to you: <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Searching for whom or what time the Spirit of Christ which in them manifested, testifying beforehand the sufferings to Christ, and the glories after these. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were serving these things, which now have been again proclaimed to you by them having announced the good news in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven; into which angels eagerly desire to stoop and creep.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">A Call to Holiness<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../hebrews/12.htm#14">Hebrews 12:14–17</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, living abstemiously, hope perfectly upon the grace brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ; <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>As children of obedience, not as formerly conforming yourselves to eager desire in your ignorance: <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But according to the holy one calling you, also should ye yourselves be holy in all turning back; <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For it has been written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And if ye call upon the Father, judging without distinction of persons according to the work of each, in fear be occupied in the time of your sojourning: <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Knowing that not with corruptible things, silver and gold, were ye redeemed from your vain mode of life transmitted from your fathers. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But with precious blood, as of a lamb blameless and spotless, of Christ: <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Known truly before the foundation of the world, and made manifest in the last times for you, <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Who by him believing in God, having raised him from the dead, and having given him glory; that your faith and hope should be in God.<p> <A name="23"></a><p class="hdg">The Enduring Word<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../isaiah/40.htm#6">Isaiah 40:6–8</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Having purified your souls in the hearing of the truth by the Spirit to unfeigned brotherly love, out of pure hearts love ye one another cordially: <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Begotten again, not of corrupted seed, but uncorrupted, by the word of God, living and remaining forever.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For all flesh as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass dried up, and the flower fell out:<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_peter/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And the word of the Lord remains forever. And this is the word having announced good news to you.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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