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1 Peter 1 :: King James Version (KJV)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:1 - Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:2 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:3 - 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,
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:4 - To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:5 - Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:6 - Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:7 - 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:
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:8 - 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:
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:9 - Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:10 - Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:11 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:12 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:13 - 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;
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:14 - As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:15 - But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:16 - Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:17 - 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:
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:18 - 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;
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:19 - But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:20 - Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:21 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:22 - 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:
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:23 - Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:24 - 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:
Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 1:25 - But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
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