1Peter:1

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* Peter , apostle of Jesus , the Christ , to the strangers scattered in Pontus , in Galatia , in Cappadocia , in Asia , and in Bithynia , * chosen (according to the foreknowledge of God the Father ) in sanctification of the Spirit , to obey and be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus , the Christ , Grace and peace , be multiplied unto you . * Praised [be ] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus , the Christ , who according to his great mercy has begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus , the Christ , from the dead , * unto the incorruptible inheritance that cannot be defiled and that does not fade away , conserved in the heavens for you , * who are kept in the virtue of God by faith , to attain unto the saving health which is made ready to be manifested in the last time . * In which ye greatly rejoice , though now for a season , if need be , ye are afflicted in diverse temptations , * that the trial of your faith , being much more precious than of gold (which perishes , nevertheless it is tried with fire ), might be found unto praise and glory and honour when Jesus , the Christ , is made manifest ; * whom having not seen , ye love ; in whom , though at present ye see [him ] not , yet believing , ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory ; * receiving the end of your faith , [even ] the saving health of your souls . * Of which saving health the prophets , (who prophesied of the grace that was to come in you ) have enquired and searched diligently ; * searching when and in what point of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify , which announced beforehand the afflictions that were to come upon the Christ , and the glory that should follow them . * Unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves , but unto us they did administer the things , which are now announced unto you by those that have preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven , which things the angels desire to look into . * Therefore , having the loins of your understanding girded with temperance , wait perfectly in the grace that is presented unto you when Jesus , the Christ , is manifested unto you , * as obedient sons , not conforming yourselves with the former desires that you had before in your ignorance , * but as he who has called you is holy , so be ye holy in all manner of conversation ; * for it is written , Be ye holy ; for I am holy . * And if ye invoke as Father , he who without respect of persons judges according to the work of each one , converse in fear the entire time of your sojourning [here ], * knowing that ye have been ransomed from your vain conversation (which you received from your fathers ), not with corruptible things [like ] silver and gold , * but with the precious blood of the Christ , as of a lamb without blemish and without contamination , * already ordained from before the foundation of the world , but was manifest in these last times for love of you , * who by him do believe God , who raised him up from the dead and has given him glory : that your faith and hope might be in God . * Having purified your souls in the obedience of the truth , by the Spirit , in unfeigned brotherly love , love one another with a pure heart fervently , * being born again , not of corruptible seed , but of incorruptible , by the word of God , which lives and abides for ever . * For all flesh [is ] as grass , and all the glory of man as the flower of grass . The grass withers , and its flower falls away , * but the word of the Lord endures for ever . And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you .:

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