Strengthen your faith in God's word

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1 Peter

1. 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
2. 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.
3. 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,
4. 1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
5. 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:
6. 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:
7. 1:9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
8. 1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
9. 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.
10. 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;
11. 1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
12. 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:
13. 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
14. 1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
15. 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:
16. 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
17. 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:
18. 1:25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
19. 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
20. 2:4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
21. 2:7 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,
22. 2:8 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.
23. 2:9 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:
24. 2:10 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.
25. 2:12 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.
26. 2:13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
27. 2:14 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.
28. 2:15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
29. 2:16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
30. 2:25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
31. 3:1 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;
32. 3:3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
33. 3:4 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.
34. 3:7 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.
35. 3:8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
36. 3:12 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.
37. 3:13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?
38. 3:14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
39. 3:15 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:
40. 3:16 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.
41. 3:17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
42. 3:20 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.
43. 3:21 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:
44. 3:22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
45. 4:2 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.
46. 4:3 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:
47. 4:4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
48. 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
49. 4:8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
50. 4:10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.