The KJV Bible With Strong's References:
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1 Peter 1
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Peter, an
apostle of
Jesus
Christ, to the
strangers
scattered throughout
Pontus,
Galatia,
Cappadocia,
Asia,
and
Bithynia,
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- 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.
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- 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,
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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
(5761) , 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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- 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.
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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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- 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;
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But with the
precious
blood of
Christ,
as of a
lamb without
blemish
and without
spot:
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- 1:20 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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- 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:
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- 1:23 Being born
again,
not
of
corruptible
seed,
but of
incorruptible,
by the
word of
God, which
liveth
and
abideth
for
ever.
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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:
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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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