Jesus in 1 Peter

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1. 1:1

   Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the elect who are exiles of the Dispersion throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen

2. 1:2

   according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

3. 1:3

   Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

4. 1:7

   so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

5. 1:11

   trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

6. 1:13

   Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

7. 1:19

   but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.

8. 1:25

   but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.

9. 2:3

   now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

10. 2:5

    you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

11. 2:21

    For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:

12. 3:12

    For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

13. 3:16

    keeping a clear conscience, so that those who slander you may be put to shame by your good behavior in Christ.

14. 3:18

    For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,

15. 3:21

    And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

16. 4:1

    Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

17. 4:11

    If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

18. 4:14

    If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

19. 5:1

    As a fellow elder, a witness of Christ’s sufferings, and a partaker of the glory to be revealed, I appeal to the elders among you:

20. 5:3

    not lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock.

21. 5:10

    And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.

22. 5:14

    Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.