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1 Scroll 29 First Epistle of Peter.
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect strangers in the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father,
in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, may be multiplied.

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Who according to His abundant mercy has born us again to a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

4 to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in Heavens for you,

5 who are being guarded by the power of God through faith to Salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

6 In which ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season (if need be) ye are in heaviness in manifold temptations:

7 that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perishing,
though being tried with fire, might be found to praise, and honour, and glory, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

8 whom not having seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory:

9 receiving the end of your faith, even the Salvation of your souls.

10 Concerning which Salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come to you:

11 searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify,
testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and after these the glories.

12 To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they served the things which are now reported to you by them that have preached the Gospel to you,
with the Holy Spirit sent from Heaven; which things the Angels desire to look into.

13 Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, being sober, and perfectly hope for the grace that is being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

14 as obedient children, not conforming yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

15 but as He who having called you is Holy, so be ye Holy in all behaviour;

16 because it has been written, Be ye Holy; for I AM Holy. Lev 19:2

17 and if ye call on the Father,
who impartially judging according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

18 Knowing that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,
as silver or gold, from your vain behaviour received by tradition from your fathers;

19 but as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot is the precious blood of Christ,

20 who truly having been foreknown before the foundation of the World, but was manifested in these last times for you,

21 who by Him do believe in God, that raised Him from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope to be in God.

22 Ye having purified your souls in obeying the Truth through the Spirit,
to unfeigned brotherly love. Ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

23 being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
by the Word of GOD, living and abiding forever.

24 Because all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. Isa 40:6
The grass withered, and its flower falls away: Isa 40:7-8

25 but the word of the LORD endures forever. Isa 40:8
And this is the word which by the Gospel was preached to you. Isa 40:9

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1 Therefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all backbitings,

2 as new-born babes, desire the reasonable pure milk of the Word, that ye by it may grow:

3 if indeed ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

4 To whom coming as to a living stone, disallowed indeed by men, but God's elect, precious,

5 ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual House, a Holy priesthood,
to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

6 Therefore also it is contained in the Scripture,
Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, elect, precious:
and he who believing in Him should not be ashamed. Isa 8:14 Isa 28:16

7 Therefore the honour is to you that believing:
but to them who are disobedient,
the stone which the builders rejected, Psa 118:22
for the same has become the head of the corner, Psa 118:22

8 and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, Isa 8:14
even to them who stumble at the word, being disobedient:
to which also they were appointed.

9 But ye are an elect kind,
a royal priesthood, a Holy Nation, Exo 19:6
a peculiar people; that ye may show forth the virtues,
of Him who having called you out of darkness into His Marvellous Light:

10 who in time past were not a people, but are now the people of GOD:
who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

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Beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

12 having your behaviour honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evil-doers,
they may by your good works, which they having beheld, they may glorify God in the day of visitation.

13 Submit yourselves therefore to every creation of man for the Lord's sake: whether to the king, as being superior;

14 or to governors, as to them that being sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well.

15 For so is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

16 as free, and not having the liberty as cover of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

17 Honour all. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

18 Household Servants, being subject to your masters with all reverence; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the crooked.

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For this is thank-worthy, if a man for conscience towards GOD endures grief, suffering wrongfully.

20 For what glory is it, if, sinning and being buffeted, ye shall endure it?
But if, when ye do well, and suffering for it, ye shall endure it, this is acceptable with God.

21 For even to this were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow His steps.

22 Who committed no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth. Isa 53:9

23 Who, when He being reviled, reviled not back; when He suffered, He threatened not;
but committed Himself to Him that judges righteously.

24 Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins,
may live to righteousness; by His wound ye were healed. Isa 53:5-11

25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer[Bishop] of your souls.

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Likewise, ye wives, being subject to your own husbands;
that, and if any obey not the word, they also may without a word may be gained by the behaviour of the wives;

2 while they behold your pure behaviour coupled with fear.

3 Of whom let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing gold, or of putting on fashion clothes of adornment;

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.

5 For after this manner in former times also the Holy women, who trusted in God,
adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands:

6 even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children[daughters] ye are, Gen 18:12
as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the wife,
as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that not be frustrated your prayers.

8 But finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; love as brethren, be tender-hearted, be courteous:

9 not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but on the contrary, blessing;
knowing that ye are called to this, that ye should inherit a blessing.

10 For he who willing love life, and see good days, Psa 34:12
let him restrain his tongue from evil, Psa 34:13
and his lips that they speak no guile: Psa 34:13

11 let him shun evil, and do good;
let him seek peace, and pursue it. Psa 34:14

12 For the eyes of the LORD are over the righteous,
and His ears are open to their prayers: Psa 34:15
but the face of the LORD is against them that do evil. Psa 34:16

13 And who is he who shall harming you, if ye may be followers of that which is good?

14 But if ye should suffer for righteousness' sake,
blessed are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

15 but sanctify the LORD GOD in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man,
that asking you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.

16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they may speak evil of you, as of evil-doers,
they may be ashamed that insulting your good behaviour in Christ.

17 For it is better, if the will of God is so, that ye suffer for well-doing, than for evil-doing.

18 For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh, but is vivified by the Spirit:

19 by which also to the spirits in prison He went and preached;

20 who formerly were disobedient, when once the endurance of God waited in the days of Noah,
while the ark was being prepared, in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. Gen 7:13

21 Which as an antitype, baptism, does also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,
but the demand of a good conscience towards GOD), by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

22 who is gone into Heaven, and is on the right hand of God;
Angels, and authorities, and powers being made subject to Him.

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1 Therefore, Christ having suffered for us in the flesh,
arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he who having suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;

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.

3 For the time having past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles,
when we walked in lasciviousnesses, lusts, excesses of wine, revelings, banquetings, and unlawful idolatries:

4 in which they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

5 who shall give account to Him that is ready to judge the living and the dead.

6 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.

7 But the end of all things has drawn-near: be ye therefore sober, and watch to prayer.

8 But before all things having fervent love among yourselves: for love will cover a multitude of sins.

9 Be hospitable to one another without grudging.

10 As every man received the gift, serving it to yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

11 If anyone speaks let him speak as the Words of God;
if anyone serves let him do it as of the ability which God gives: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ;
to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen!

12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to tempt you,
as though some strange thing happened to you:

13 but rejoice, seeing ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings;
so that also at the revealing of His glory ye may rejoice, having exceeding joy.

14 If ye are reproached for the Name of Christ,
blessed are ye; for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
On their part He is blasphemed of, but on your part He is glorified.

15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as a busy-body in other men's matters.

16 But if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the House of God:
but if it first begins at us, what will be the end of them that obey not the Gospel of God?

18 And if the righteous is scarcely saved, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear? Pro 11:31

19 Therefore, let them that suffer according to the will of God,
commit the keeping of their souls to Him in well-doing, as to a faithful Creator.

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1 The elders who 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 about to be revealed.

2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight,
not constrainedly, but wilfully; not sordidly, but eagerly;

3 neither as dominating over His heritage, but being examples to the flock.

4 And the chief Shepherd having appeared, ye shall receive the unfading crown of glory.

5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves to the elder.
Yet, all of you being subject one to another, and be clothed with humility:
for God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

6 Be humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time:

7 casting all your care upon Him; for He cares for you.

8 Be sober, be watchful; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:

9 whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the World.

10 But the God of all grace, who has called us to His everlasting glory in Christ Jesus,
after ye have suffered a while, Himself may perfect, may establish, may strengthen, may found you.

11 To Him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen!

12 By Silvanus, a faithful brother to you, as I suppose, I wrote briefly,
exhorting, and testifying that this to be the true grace of God in which ye has stood.

13 Salutes you, she the fellow-elected at Babylon, and Mark the son of me.

14 Salute ye one another with a kiss of love. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen!