1 Peter verse by verse

[Joy]

1 Peter 2:9 (NKJV)

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

 

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1 Peter 2:10 (KJV) Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

 

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1 Peter 2:11 (KJV) Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

 

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1 Peter 2:12 (KJV) Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

 

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1 Peter 2:13 (KJV) Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

 

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1 Peter 2:14 (KJV) Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

 

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1 Peter 2:15 (KJV) For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

 

[ChristianCandy]

[bible]1 Peter 2:16[/bible]

 

[ChristianCandy]

[bible]1 Peter 2:17[/bible]

 

[worldwatcher]

1 peter 2:18
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

 

[Glenda]

1Peter 2:19 God is pleased if a person is aware of him while enduring the pains of unjust suffering.

 

[angelwind]

1 Peter 2:20

For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer for it, if you take it patiently, this is comendable before God.

 

[worldwatcher]

1 Peter 2:21
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

 

[ChristianCandy]

[bible]1 Peter 2:22[/bible]

 

[doc329]

1 Peter 2:23 (KJV) Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

 

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1 Peter 2:24 (KJV) Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

 

[ChristianCandy]

[bible]1 Peter 2:25[/bible]

 

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1 Peter 3:1 (KJV) Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

 

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1 Peter 3:2 (KJV) While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.

 

[ChristianCandy]

[bible]1 Peter 3:3[/bible]