1Peter:1

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* Peter , an apostle of Jesus Christ , to the elect sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus , of Galatia , of Cappadocia , of Asia , and of Bithynia , * according to the foreknowledge of God the Father , in sanctification of the Spirit to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ : Grace and peace be multiplied to you . * Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ , He according to His great mercy having regenerated us to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead , * to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled , and unfading , having been kept in Heaven for you * by the power of God , having been guarded through faith to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time ; * in which you exult ; yet a little while , if need be , grieving in manifold trials , * so that the proving of your faith , much more precious than perishing gold , but having been proved through fire , may be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ ; * whom having not seen , you love ; in whom not yet seeing , but believing , you exult with unspeakable and having been glorified , * obtaining the end of your faith , the salvation of your souls . * About which salvation the prophets sought out and searched out , prophesying concerning the grace for you , * searching for what , or what sort of time the Spirit of Christ made clear within them ; testifying beforehand of the sufferings belonging to Christ , and the glories after these . * To whom it was revealed that not to themselves , but to us they ministered the same things , which now were announced to you by those having preached the gospel to you in the Holy Spirit sent from Heaven ; into which things angels long to bow to look . * Because of this , having girded up the loins of your mind , being sober , perfectly hope on the grace being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ , * as children of obedience , not fashioning yourselves to your former lusts in your ignorance , * but according to the Holy One who has called you , you also become holy in all conduct ; * because it has been written , "Be holy ," "because I am holy ." Leviticus . strkjv @19:2 * And if you call on the Father , the One judging according to the work of each one without respect to persons , pass the time of your sojourning in fear , * knowing that not with corruptible things , silver or gold , you were redeemed from your worthless way of life handed down from your fathers , * but with precious blood of Christ , as of an unblemished and unspotted lamb , * indeed having been foreknown before the foundation of the world , but revealed in the last times because of you , * the ones believing in God through Him , He raising Him from the dead , and giving glory to Him so that your faith and hope may be in God . * Having purified your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unpretended brotherly love , love one another fervently out of a pure heart , * having been born again , not by corruptible seed , but incorruptible , through the living word of God , and remaining forever . * Because "all flesh is as grass , and all the glory of men as the flower of grass ; the grass was dried , and its flower fell out , * but the Word of the Lord remains forever ." And this is the Word announced as gospel to you . Isaiah . strkjv @40:6 -8

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