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The First Epistle General of
Peter
CHAPTER PETER 1
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 inheritance 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 having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see
him
not,
yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
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Receiving the end of your faith,
even
the salvation of
your
souls.
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Of which salvation the prophets have enquired 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 conversation;
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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 judgeth
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 redeemed with corruptible things,
as
silver and gold, from your vain
conversation
received
by tradition from your fathers;
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But with the precious blood of Christ, as
of a lamb without 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
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