I Peter - Verse by Verse

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(NAS) 1 Peter 1:15 but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior;

 

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(NAS) 1 Peter 1:16 because it is written: “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

 

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(NAS) 1 Peter 1:17 If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth;

 

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(NAS) 1 Peter 1:18 knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,

 

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(NAS) 1 Peter 1:19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.

 

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(NAS) 1 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

 

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(NAS) 1 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.

 

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(NAS) 1 Peter 1:22 Since you have purified your souls in obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brothers and sisters, fervently love one another from the heart,

 

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(NAS) 1 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.

 

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(NAS) 1 Peter 1:24 For,
“All flesh is like grass,
And all its glory is like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
And the flower falls off,

 

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

 

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(NAS) 1 Peter 2:1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

 

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(NAS) 1 Peter 2:2 and like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,

 

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(NAS) 1 Peter 2:3 if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.

 

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(NAS) 1 Peter 2:4 And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by people, but is choice and precious in the sight of God,

 

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(NAS) 1 Peter 2:5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

 

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(NAS) 1 Peter 2:6 For this is contained in Scripture:
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a choice stone, a precious cornerstone,
And the one who believes in Him will not be put to shame.”

 

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(NAS) 1 Peter 2:7 This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for unbelievers,
“A stone which the builders rejected,
This became the chief cornerstone,”

 

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(NAS) 1 Peter 2:8 and,
“A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense”;
for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this they were also appointed.

 

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(NAS) 1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;