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Chapter 1 |
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Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia,
and Bithynia, |
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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. |
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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, |
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To an 1inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for
you, |
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Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. |
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Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: |
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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: |
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Whom ahaving not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing,
ye rejoice with 1joy unspeakable and full of glory: |
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aReceiving the bend of your faith, even the salvation
of your souls. |
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Of which salvation the prophets have 1enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace
that should come unto you: |
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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. |
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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. |
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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; |
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As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: |
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But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of aconversation; |
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Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. |
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And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons 1judgeth according to every man's work,
pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: |
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Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not 1redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from
your vain aconversation received by tradition from your fathers; |
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But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb awithout blemish and without
spot: |
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Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, |
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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. |
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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: |
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Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, awhich
liveth and abideth for ever. |
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For 1all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.
The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: |
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1But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which
by the gospel is preached unto you. |
