If you want to accept God's
offer in his Son, say a prayer like this:
Jesus, I confess that you are not only the
most important person in history, but you are the Creator and Savior of the
world. Lord Jesus, I need you. I have done wrong. Please forgive me of my sins
and come into my life. I ask you not just to be part of my life, but to guide me
to live according to the words I read in the Bible. Thank you for your mercy and
forgiveness. I am now committed to be your follower.
Amen.
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The Book of 1 Peter
Chapter 1
001:001 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the
strangers scattered
throughout
Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
001:002 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.
001:003 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,
001:004 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled,
and that
fadeth not away, reserved
in heaven for you,
001:005 Who are kept by the power of God through faith
unto salvation
ready to be
revealed in the last time.
001:006 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a
season, if need
be, ye are in
heaviness through manifold temptations:
001:007 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:
001:008 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though
now ye see him
not, yet believing,
ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and
full
of glory:
001:009 Receiving the end of your faith, even the
salvation of your
souls.
001:010 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired
and searched
diligently, who
prophesied of the grace that should come
unto
you:
001:011 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.
001:012 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.
001:013 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;
001:014 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves
according to
the former lusts in
your ignorance:
001:015 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be
ye holy in all
manner of
conversation;
001:016 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
001:017 And 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:
001:018 Forasmuch 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;
001:019 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a
lamb without
blemish and without
spot:
001:020 Who verily was foreordained before the
foundation of the
world, but was
manifest in these last times for you,
001:021 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.
001:022 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:
001:023 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but
of
incorruptible, by the word of
God, which liveth and abideth
for
ever.
001:024 For 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:
001:025 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And
this is the
word which by the
gospel is preached unto you.
002:001 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all
guile, and
hypocrisies, and
envies, all evil speakings,
002:002 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the
word, that ye
may grow
thereby:
002:003 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
002:004 To whom coming, as unto a living stone,
disallowed indeed of
men, but
chosen of God, and precious,
002:005 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.
002:006 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture,
Behold, I lay
in Sion a chief
corner stone, elect, precious: and he
that
believeth on him shall not be
confounded.
002:007 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious:
but unto them
which be
disobedient, the stone which the builders
disallowed,
the same is made the
head of the corner,
002:008 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.
002:009 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, an holy
nation, a
peculiar people; that ye should shew forth
the
praises of him who hath called
you out of darkness into his
marvellous light;
002:010 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.
002:011 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and
pilgrims,
abstain from fleshly
lusts, which war against the soul;
002:012 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.
002:013 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for
the Lord's
sake: whether it be to
the king, as supreme;
002:014 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.
002:015 For so is the will of God, that with well doing
ye may put to
silence the
ignorance of foolish men:
002:016 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke
of
maliciousness, but as the
servants of God.
002:017 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God.
Honour the
king.
002:018 Servants, be subject to your masters with all
fear; not only
to the good and
gentle, but also to the froward.
002:019 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience
toward God
endure grief, suffering
wrongfully.
002:020 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted
for your faults,
ye shall take it
patiently? but if, when ye do well,
and
suffer for it, ye take it
patiently, this is acceptable with
God.
002:021 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ
also suffered
for us, leaving us
an example, that ye should follow
his
steps:
002:022 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
002:023 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again;
when he suffered,
he threatened
not; but committed himself to him that
judgeth
righteously:
002:024 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.
002:025 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now
returned unto
the Shepherd and
Bishop of your souls.
003:001 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;
003:002 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
003:003 Whose adorning let it not be that outward
adorning of plaiting
the hair, and
of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
003:004 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in
that which is
not corruptible,
even the ornament of a meek and quiet
spirit,
which is in the sight of
God of great price.
003:005 For after this manner in the old time the holy
women also, who
trusted in God,
adorned themselves, being in subjection
unto
their own husbands:
003:006 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord:
whose daughters
ye are, as long as
ye do well, and are not afraid with
any
amazement.
003:007 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according
to knowledge,
giving honour unto
the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and
as
being heirs together of the
grace of life; that your prayers
be not hindered.
003:008 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having
compassion one of
another, love as
brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
003:009 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for
railing: but
contrariwise
blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto
called,
that ye should inherit a
blessing.
003:010 For he that will love life, and see good days,
let him refrain
his tongue from
evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
003:011 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek
peace, and
ensue it.
003:012 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous,
and his ears
are open unto their
prayers: but the face of the Lord
is
against them that do evil.
003:013 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be
followers of that
which is
good?
003:014 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake,
happy are ye:
and be not afraid of
their terror, neither be troubled;
003:015 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be
ready always
to give an answer to
every man that asketh you a reason of
the
hope that is in you with
meekness and fear:
003:016 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they
speak evil of
you, as of
evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely
accuse
your good conversation in
Christ.
003:017 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that
ye suffer for
well doing, than for
evil doing.
003:018 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the
just for the
unjust, that he might
bring us to God, being put to death
in
the flesh, but quickened by the
Spirit:
003:019 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
003:020 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the
longsuffering
of God waited in the
days of Noah, while the ark was a
preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved
by
water.
003:021 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also
now save us
(not the putting away
of the filth of the flesh, but the
answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the
resurrection
of Jesus Christ:
003:022 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right
hand of God;
angels and
authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
004:001 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in
the flesh,
arm yourselves likewise
with the same mind: for he that
hath
suffered in the flesh hath
ceased from sin;
004:002 That he no longer should live the rest of his
time in the
flesh to the lusts of
men, but to the will of God.
004:003 For the time past of our life may suffice us to
have wrought
the will of the
Gentiles, when we walked in
lasciviousness,
lusts, excess of
wine, revellings, banquetings, and
abominable
idolatries:
004:004 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not
with them to the
same excess of
riot, speaking evil of you:
004:005 Who shall give account to him that is ready to
judge the quick
and the dead.
004:006 For for this cause was the gospel preached also
to them that
are dead, that they
might be judged according to men in
the
flesh, but live according to
God in the spirit.
004:007 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye
therefore sober,
and watch unto
prayer.
004:008 And above all things have fervent charity among
yourselves:
for charity shall
cover the multitude of sins.
004:009 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
004:010 As every man hath received the gift, even so
minister the same
one to another,
as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
004:011 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles
of God; if any
man minister, let
him do it as of the ability which
God
giveth: that God in all things
may be glorified through Jesus
Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and
ever.
Amen.
004:012 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the
fiery trial which
is to try you,
as though some strange thing happened unto you:
004:013 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of
Christ's
sufferings; that, when
his glory shall be revealed, ye may
be
glad also with exceeding
joy.
004:014 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ,
happy are ye; for
the spirit of
glory and of God resteth upon you: on their
part
he is evil spoken of, but on
your part he is glorified.
004:015 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as
a thief, or as
an evildoer, or as
a busybody in other men's matters.
004:016 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him
not be ashamed;
but let him
glorify God on this behalf.
004:017 For the time is come that judgment must begin at
the house of
God: and if it first
begin at us, what shall the end be
of
them that obey not the gospel
of God?
004:018 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where
shall the
ungodly and the sinner
appear?
004:019 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the
will of God
commit the keeping of
their souls to him in well doing,
as
unto a faithful Creator.
005:001 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am
also an elder,
and a witness of
the sufferings of Christ, and also a
partaker
of the glory that shall
be revealed:
005:002 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking
the oversight
thereof, not by
constraint, but willingly; not for
filthy
lucre, but of a ready
mind;
005:003 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but
being
ensamples to the flock.
005:004 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye
shall receive a
crown of glory
that fadeth not away.
005:005 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the
elder. Yea,
all of you be subject
one to another, and be clothed
with
humility: for God resisteth
the proud, and giveth grace to the
humble.
005:006 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty
hand of God, that
he may exalt you
in due time:
005:007 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
005:008 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary
the devil, as a
roaring lion,
walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
005:009 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that
the same
afflictions are
accomplished in your brethren that are in
the
world.
005:010 But the God of all grace, who hath called us
unto his eternal
glory by Christ
Jesus, after that ye have suffered a
while,
make you perfect, stablish,
strengthen, settle you.
005:011 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
005:012 By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I
suppose, I have
written briefly,
exhorting, and testifying that this is
the
true grace of God wherein ye
stand.
005:013 The church that is at Babylon, elected together
with you,
saluteth you; and so
doth Marcus my son.
005:014 Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity.
Peace be with you
all that are in
Christ Jesus. Amen.