1Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jas 1:1Acts 2:5-11Eph 2:19Heb 11:131 Pet 2:11Acts 8:4John 11:52Matt 24:22Ps 44:11Acts 16:6-7
2Elect 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Thess 2:13Eph 1:4-5Heb 12:241 Pet 1:22Rom 11:2Acts 2:23John 15:16-192 Pet 1:2Rom 8:29-30Rom 16:26
3Blessed 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, Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Pet 1:231 John 5:4Rom 15:13Titus 3:4-6Eph 1:72 Cor 1:31 John 3:3Rom 12:121 John 2:29Eph 1:3
4To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Rev 21:27Heb 9:151 Pet 5:42 Tim 4:8Col 1:5Matt 25:34Eph 1:11Eph 1:18Ezek 47:12Isa 40:7-8
5Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Phil 1:6Eph 2:82 Thess 2:13-14Rom 8:31-39Job 19:25John 10:28-301 Pet 1:13Heb 9:28Gal 2:20John 17:11-12
6Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jas 1:21 Pet 5:10Rom 12:12Rom 5:2Matt 5:12John 16:33Isa 61:3John 16:221 Pet 4:12-13Ps 34:19
7That 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: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 23:10Jas 1:12Isa 48:101 Pet 4:12Jas 1:3-4Zech 13:9Prov 17:3Rom 2:7Rom 5:3-4Mal 3:3
8Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:John 20:292 Cor 5:7Rom 15:13Heb 11:1John 16:222 Cor 4:181 Pet 1:6Heb 11:271 Pet 5:4Eph 6:24
9Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Rom 6:22Jas 1:21Heb 11:13
10Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Matt 13:17Luke 10:24Dan 2:44Luke 24:25-27Acts 10:43Acts 7:52John 5:39Zech 6:12Acts 3:22-24Heb 11:13
11Searching 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Pet 1:21Isa 52:13-14Luke 24:25-27Rom 8:9Acts 26:22-23Isa 53:1-12Zech 14:9Gen 3:15Gen 49:101 Pet 3:18-19
12Unto 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:John 15:261 Cor 2:10Eph 3:101 Pet 1:25Heb 11:39-40Heb 4:2Mark 16:152 Cor 1:222 Cor 6:6Rev 5:11
13Wherefore 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; Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Pet 5:8Luke 12:351 Pet 4:7Heb 9:281 Pet 3:151 John 3:3Titus 2:11-131 Thess 5:6-8Luke 21:34-35Eph 6:14
14As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Rom 12:2Titus 3:3-51 Pet 4:2-3Eph 2:21 Thess 4:5Col 3:5-7Eph 4:18-22Acts 17:30Rom 6:4Eph 5:6
15But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Matt 5:482 Cor 7:1Heb 12:14Jas 3:13Eph 5:1-21 John 3:31 Thess 4:3-7Phil 2:15-161 Pet 2:121 Pet 2:9
16Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lev 11:44Lev 19:2Lev 20:7
17And 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: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 10:34-352 Chr 19:72 Cor 7:1Phil 2:12Matt 6:9Heb 12:28Jer 3:19Eph 1:17Gal 2:6Job 34:19
18Forasmuch 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; Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Cor 6:20Titus 2:141 Cor 7:23Ps 49:7-8Gal 1:4Eph 4:17Rom 1:211 Pet 1:71 Pet 4:3Acts 19:34-35
19But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 John 1:71 Pet 2:22-24John 1:29Heb 9:12-14Rev 5:9Exod 12:5John 1:36Col 1:14Eph 1:7Rev 1:5
20Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eph 1:42 Tim 1:9-10Heb 9:26Rev 13:8Heb 1:2Titus 1:2-3Col 1:26Eph 3:9Mic 5:2Eph 1:10
21Who 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. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 2:24Heb 2:9John 12:44Acts 2:32-33Heb 7:251 Pet 1:111 Pet 3:22Eph 1:151 Tim 1:1Acts 3:13
22Seeing 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: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Tim 1:5Heb 13:1Rom 12:9-101 Pet 3:81 John 4:12John 13:34-351 John 4:7Jas 4:82 Thess 1:31 John 3:23
23Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Pet 1:3Heb 4:12John 1:13John 3:3John 6:631 Cor 15:53-541 John 5:18Jas 1:181 John 3:9John 3:5
24For 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: Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 40:6-8Ps 103:15Jas 4:14Jas 1:10-11Ps 37:22 Kgs 19:261 John 2:17Ps 129:6Ps 92:7Ps 102:4
25But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 40:81 Cor 15:1-4Matt 5:18Ps 119:891 John 1:12 Pet 1:19Luke 16:17Ps 102:121 Pet 1:23John 1:1