I Peter - Verse by Verse

[DerSchweik]

(NASB) I Peter 1:20 For He was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has appeared in these last times for the sake of you

 

[DerSchweik]

(NASB) I Peter 1:21 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.

 

[DerSchweik]

(NASB) I Peter 1:22 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,

 

[DerSchweik]

(NASB) I Peter 1:23 for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.

 

[DerSchweik]

(NASB) I Peter 1:24 For,

“All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
And the flower falls off,

 

[DerSchweik]

(NASB) I Peter 1:25 But the word of the Lord endures forever.”
And this is the word which was preached to you.

 

[brinny]

1 Peter 2:1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all speakings.

 

[brinny]

1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

 

[GuusVA]

1Peter 2:3 NIV
Now tgat you have tasted that the Lord is good.

 

[GuusVA]

I Peter 2:4 NIV
As you come to him, the living Stone-- rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him--

 

[brinny]

1 Peter 2:5

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

THIS is an amaaaaaaaazing verse!

 

[Joy]

1 Peter 2:6

Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture,

“Behold, I lay in Zion
A chief cornerstone, elect, precious,
And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame.”

 

[allmyluv4Him]

1 Peter 2:7

Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient,

"The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone,"

 

[brinny]

1 Peter 2:8

And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

 

[allmyluv4Him]

1 Peter 2:9

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;

 

[kittysbecute]

"Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy." - 1 Peter 2:10 (ESV)

 

[allmyluv4Him]

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,

 

[Crwth]

(ASV) I Peter 2:12 having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

 

[Crwth]

(ASV) I Peter 2:13 Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

 

[Crwth]

(ASV) I Peter 2:14 or unto governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to them that do well.