1Peter,
an apostle
of Jesus
Christ, to
the
strangers
scattered
throughout
Pontus,
Galatia,
Cappadocia,
Asia, and
Bithynia,
2Elect
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.
3Blessed 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,
4To
an
inheritance
incorruptible,
and
undefiled,
and that
fadeth not
away,
reserved in
heaven for
you,
5Who
are kept by
the power of
God through
faith unto
salvation
ready to be
revealed in
the last
time.
6Wherein
ye greatly
rejoice,
though now
for a
season, if
need be, ye
are in
heaviness
through
manifold
temptations:
7That
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:
8Whom
having not
seen, ye
love; in
whom, though
now ye see him not,
yet
believing,
ye rejoice
with joy
unspeakable
and full of
glory:
9Receiving
the end of
your faith, even the
salvation
of your souls.
10Of
which
salvation
the prophets
have
enquired and
searched
diligently,
who
prophesied
of the
grace that
should come unto
you:
11Searching
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.
12Unto
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.
13Wherefore
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;
14As
obedient
children,
not
fashioning
yourselves
according to
the former
lusts in
your
ignorance:
15But
as he which
hath called
you is holy,
so be ye
holy in all
manner of
conversation;
16Because
it is
written, Be
ye holy; for
I am holy.
17And
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:
18Forasmuch
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;
19But
with the
precious
blood of
Christ, as
of a lamb
without
blemish and
without
spot:
20Who
verily was
foreordained
before the
foundation
of the
world, but
was manifest
in these
last times
for you,
21Who
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.
22Seeing
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:
23Being
born again,
not of
corruptible
seed, but of
incorruptible,
by the word
of God,
which liveth
and abideth
for ever.
24For
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:
25But
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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