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1 Peter 1:5
who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.
who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.
Verse 1 Peter 1:5. _WHO ARE KEPT_] φρουρουμενονς. _Who are defended as in_ _a fortress_ or _castle_. There is a remarkable correspondence between the two verbs used in this sentence: the verb τηρεω,...
WHO ARE KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD - That is, “kept” or preserved in the faith and hope of the gospel; who are preserved from apostacy, or so kept that you will finally obtain salvation. The word which...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE SUFFERING OF BELIEVERS AND EXHORTATIONS TO HOLY LIVING CHAPTER 1:1-21 _ 1. The introduction and doxology (1 Peter 1:1)_ 2. Suffering and the coming glory (1 Peter...
The section contains a deep and rich thanksgiving to God for the certainty of an eternal fellowship with Christ. This no sufferings can mar, nor death itself break. He is the unseen Friend, and since...
KEPT. See 2 Corinthians 11:32. BY. App-104. POWER. App-172. THROUGH. App-104. 1 Peter 1:1. FAITH. App-150. SALVATION. Compare 1 Thessalonians 5:9
_who are kept by the power of God through faith_ In the word for "kept," we have, as in 2 Corinthians 11:32 in its literal, and Philippians 4:7 in its figurative sense, the idea of being "guarded" as...
1 Peter 1:3-13. THE HIGH PRIVILEGES AND DESTINY OF THE CHRISTIAN _Benediction_ 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for by raising Him from the dead He has begotten us, His othe...
ἘΝ ΔΥΝΆΜΕΙ ΘΕΟΥ͂ may describe the _fortress in_ which or the _garrison by_ which the Christian is guarded. ΔΙᾺ ΠΊΣΤΕΩΣ. Faith in God’s promised deliverance is the condition by which man must avail hi...
ΦΡΟΥΡΟΥΜΈΝΟΥΣ _praes. pass. part. от_ ΦΡΟΥΡΈΩ (G5432) хранить, стеречь. Это военный термин, обозначающий охрану. _Praes._ подчеркивает необходимость постоянной защиты в непрекращающейся битве души. Их...
DISCOURSE: 2380 REGENERATION CONSIDERED 1 Peter 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 resu...
WHO ARE KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD— The word φρουρουμενους, which we translate _kept,_ is very strong and expressive: it does not mean being kept after any manner, but with the most constant and vigilan...
II. THE GREAT SALVATION 1 PETER 1:3-12 _1. Thanksgiving For it 1:3-5_ 1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a livin...
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. KEPT, [ frouroumenous (G5432)] - 'who are being guarded.' He answers the objection, Of what use...
VERSE 5 WHO ARE KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD. Kept; that is, guarded. God, by his revealed will, has made provisions by which his elect are kept or guarded or defended against the prince of evil and all...
1 Note the contrast between Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus. Peter proceeds on the ground of His present rejection on earth, Paul on His exaltation in heaven. 1...
1:5 time. (a-21) The article is everywhere left out in the Greek here, making it all characteristic and descriptive....
GREETING IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY TRINITY. ENCOURAGEMENT TO HOPE IN FAITH AND OBEDIENCE 1, 2. To the strangers scattered throughout.. elect] RV 'to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in,' e...
KEPT] RV 'guarded': cp. Galatians 3:23; Philippians 4:7. SALVATION] RV 'a salvation.' The Gk. means 'safety,' 'health,' and is so used in Acts 27:34;...
‘Protects’ is a military word that has two meanings. It means to guard from attack and to prevent escape. Peter wants to encourage Christians who are suffering for being Christians. God’s power guards...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ INTRODUCTION THE WRITER Peter wrote this letter. He was one of the 12 *apostles. His name was Simon, but Jesus changed it to Peter (John 1:42). ‘Pe...
(3-12) PANEGYRIC OF THE GOSPEL FROM A HEBREW POINT OF VIEW. — The Apostle thanks God for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That fact is a regeneration of us, and a pledge of future glory, in view of w...
WHO ARE KEPT. — This explains the word “you:” “those, I mean, who are under the guardianship of God’s power.” Bengel says, “As the inheritance hath been preserved, so are the heirs guarded; neither sh...
CHAPTER 2 THE HEAVENLY INHERITANCE 1 Peter 1:3 "OUT of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh," words true of all this letter, but of no part more true than of the thanksgiving with which it...
The Christians addressed are to complete the metaphor from other passages in the Epistle a spiritual house (2 5.), which is besieged by the devil (1 Peter 1:8) but guarded and garrisoned by God's Powe...
_Benediction of the Name_. The mention of God is followed by the Benediction of the Name as Jewish piety prescribed; the formula _the Holy One, blessed be He_, being amplified by the Christian appreci...
Blessed be God whom we have come to know as the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! For He has granted to us the crowning manifestation of His great mercy. He has raised Jesus Christ from the dea...
OUR IMPERISHABLE INHERITANCE 1 Peter 1:1 _ Scattered strangers_! The designation is true of us all. Note the reference to the Trinity involved in the opening sentence. Our inheritance is prepared and...
Like the letter of James, the purpose of this was to establish those who were passing through a period of suffering and testing. In his introduction the apostle used the name Jesus had given him, "Pet...
PRAISE GOD! The word "blessed," which is used in 1 Peter 1:3, is not the word translated blessed in the beatitudes, which describes an inner happiness of the spiritual man. Instead, Thayer tells us it...
(2) Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the (d) last time. (2) Now he shows by what way we come to that glory, that is, through all types of afflictio...
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, (4) To an inh...
The epistles of Peter are addressed to the elect Jews of his day, believing of course on the Lord Jesus, and scattered throughout a considerable portion of Asia Minor. The apostle takes particular car...
_IN HIS KEEPING_ ‘Kept by the power of God.’ 1 Peter 1:5 In other words, heaven is kept for God’s people, and they are kept for heaven. To every true Christian such a thought is full of sweet, plea...
5_Who are kept by the power of God _We are to notice the connection when he says, that we are kept while in the world, and at the same time our inheritance is reserved in heaven; otherwise this though...
The First Epistle of Peter is addressed to believers among the dispersed of Israel found in those provinces of Asia Minor Which are named in the first Verse; the Second Epistle declares itself to be a...
WHO ARE KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD,.... This is a description of the persons for whom the inheritance is reserved in heaven; they are not only chosen to salvation, and begotten again to an inheritance,...
Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Ver. 5. _Who are kept_] φρουρουμενοι, as with a guard, or as in a garrison, that is, well fenced w...
_Who are kept_ Who, though now surrounded with many apparent dangers, are not left defenceless, but are _guarded_, kept as in a garrison, as the word φρουρουμενους signifies; _by the power of God_ Whi...
IN THE LAST TIME; at the end of the world. Those who believe on Christ must persevere in holiness in order to be saved; and the manner in which God keeps them affords the greatest encouragement to do...
Peter writes with apostolic authority and though it is directly to the dispersed Jewish Christians (strangers both because Jews among Gentiles, and because Christians separated from Jewish relatives),...
_ 1 Peter 1:5 “who are protected by the power of God through faith for. salvation ready to be revealed in the last time'_ “WHO ARE PROTECTED BY THE POWER OF GOD THROUGH FAITH” -1. ‘Protected'-‘a milit...
1-9 This epistle is addressed to believers in general, who are strangers in every city or country where they live, and are scattered through the nations. These are to ascribe their salvation to the e...
WHO ARE KEPT: lest it should be objected, that though the inheritance be safe in heaven, yet the heirs are in danger here upon earth, by reason of the power and stratagems of enemies, and their own im...
1 Peter 1:5 who G3588 kept G5432 (G5746) by G1722 power G1411 God G2316 through G1223 faith G4102 for...
THE GREAT PRIVILEGE AND BLESSING THAT IS THEIRS AS GOD'S ELECT WHICH EVEN ANGELS DESIRE TO LOOK INTO (1 PETER 1:3). The result of God's foreknowing of us, and of the sanctifying work of the Spirit is...
‘Who by the power of God are being guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.' And all these things are guaranteed to us because we are ‘being continually closely gu...
Peter lifts his readers' eyes at once to the future. He speaks first of their hope, their inheritance, their final salvation, before he alludes to the burdens and fears of the present. There was that...
1 Peter 1:5. WHO IN GOD'S POWER ARE BEING GUARDED THROUGH FAITH. A still better reason why they should lift a thankfully confident eye to the heavenly inheritance. The possession might be reserved for...
BY THE POWER OF GOD (εν δυναμε θεου). No other δυναμις (power) like this (Colossians 1:3).ARE GUARDED (φρουρουμενους). Present (continuous process) passive articular (τους) participle of φρουρεω,...
1 Peter 1:3 The Heavenly Inheritance. I. The greatness of God's mercy is to be seen in the great number of the saved. II. The greatness of God's mercy is to be seen in the great change which takes...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,_ It must have been very pleasant to his heart to write those words, not «Peter, who denied his Master,» not Peter, «full of imperfections and infirmit...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia. Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ._ These are his credentials from him who is Prince of the kings of the earth. _To the strangers scattered_ abroad, of whose tragic dispersion we have spo...
WHO THROUGH FAITH ARE KEPT SAFE. See 1 Peter 5:7; 1 John 5:4-5. God's power is available to the Christian through faith! REVEALED. 1 John 3:1-3....
_Blessed be the God and Father._ MAN BLESSING GOD I. Man blesseth God three ways. 1. In his heart, when, refreshed with God’s favour and inflamed with the joys of His presence, he doth lift up his...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:3 Called to Salvation as Exiles. Believers must praise God for his promised salvation and live out that salvation daily. ⇐
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:5 SALVATION in this context is a further description of the inheritance in v. 1 Peter 1:4 and the hope in v....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 1:3. BLESSED BE.—A characteristic Jewish recognition of God’s mercy. Compare with 2 Corinthians 1:3; Ephesians 1:3. ABUNDANT.—πολὺ, much. BEGOTTEN US.—The choic...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 1:1 PETER. It is the Greek form of the name, which the Lord Jesus himself had given to the great apostle; first, by anticipation, in the spirit of prophecy (John 1:42); and again...
Tonight let's turn to First Peter chapter one. Of the many disciples that were following Jesus, He chose twelve to be apostles. One of the twelve that was chosen as an apostle was Simon Peter. Simon P...
1 John 3:2; 1 Peter 1:13; 1 Samuel 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 1:3;...
Kept [φ ρ ο υ ρ ο υ μ ε ν ο υ ς]. A military term. Lit., garrisoned. Rev., guarded. Compare 2 Corinthians 11:32, and the beautiful metaphorical use of the word at Philippians 4:7, "shall guard your he...
JOY UNSPEAKABLE AND FULL OF GLORY 1 Peter 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As Peter opens his First Epistle he speaks of the strangers scattered throughout certain countries, then he goes on to tell us some...
Who are kept — The inheritance is reserved; the heirs are kept for it. By the power of God — Which worketh all in all, which guards us against all our enemies. Through faith — Through which alone salv...
Here our apostle seems to pre-occupate and prevent an objection. Some might say, "Though the saints' inheritance be safe in heaven, yet they are in danger here on earth:" Be it so, as if our apostle h...