1 Peter 5:1-5
FINAL ADMONITIONS AND CONCLUDING GREETINGS. An exhortation to pastors:... [ Continue Reading ]
FINAL ADMONITIONS AND CONCLUDING GREETINGS. An exhortation to pastors:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ELDERS WHICH ARE AMONG YOU I EXHORT, WHO AM ALSO AN ELDER, AND A WITNESS OF THE SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST, AND ALSO A PARTAKER OF THE GLORY THAT SHALL BE REVEALED:... [ Continue Reading ]
FEED THE FLOCK OF GOD WHICH IS AMONG YOU, TAKING THE OVERSIGHT THEREOF, NOT BY CONSTRAINT, BUT WILLINGLY; NOT FOR FILTHY LUCRE, BUT OF A READY MIND;... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER AS BEING LORDS OVER GOD'S HERITAGE, BUT BEING ENSAMPLES TO THE FLOCK.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE CHIEF SHEPHERD SHALL APPEAR, YE SHALL RECEIVE A CROWN OF GLORY THAT FADES NOT AWAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIKEWISE YE YOUNGER, SUBMIT YOURSELVES UNTO THE ELDER. YEA, ALL OF YOU BE SUBJECT ONE TO ANOTHER, AND BE CLOTHED-WITH HUMILITY; FOR GOD RESISTETH THE PROUD, AND GIVETH GRACE TO THE HUMBLE. Having referred to various stations among the Christians in the first part of his letter, the apostle here addr... [ Continue Reading ]
HUMBLE YOURSELVES, THEREFORE, UNDER THE MIGHTY HAND OF GOD THAT HE MAY EXALT YOU IN DUE TIME;... [ Continue Reading ]
Humility and vigilance enjoined:... [ Continue Reading ]
CASTING ALL YOUR CARE UPON HIM, FOR HE CARETH FOR YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
BE SOBER, BE VIGILANT, BECAUSE YOUR ADVERSARY, THE DEVIL, AS A ROARING LION, WALKETH ABOUT, SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHOM RESIST STEADFAST IN THE FAITH, KNOWING THAT THE SAME AFFLICTIONS ARE ACCOMPLISHED IN YOUR BRETHREN THAT ARE IN THE WORLD. The lesson which the apostle opened in the first paragraph he here concludes with an urgent appeal: Humble yourselves, then, under the mighty hand of God, so that He may ex... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE GOD OF ALL GRACE, WHO HATH CALLED US UNTO HIS ETERNAL GLORY BY CHRIST JESUS, AFTER THAT YE HAVE SUFFERED A WHILE, MAKE YOU PERFECT, STABLISH, STRENGTHEN, SETTLE YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
Greetings and benediction:... [ Continue Reading ]
TO HIM BE GLORY AND DOMINION FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY SILVANUS, A FAITHFUL BROTHER, UNTO YOU, AS I SUPPOSE, I HAVE WRITTEN BRIEFLY, EXHORTING AND TESTIFYING THAT THIS IS THE TRUE GRACE OF GOD WHEREIN YE STAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHURCH THAT IS AT BABYLON, ELECTED TOGETHER WITH YOU, SALUTETH YOU; AND SO DOTH MARCUS, MY SON.... [ Continue Reading ]
GREET YE ONE ANOTHER WITH A KISS OF CHARITY. PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL THAT ARE IN CHRIST JESUS. AMEN. That the battle against the might and the guile of Satan is not a matter of man's own strength and wisdom is a truth of which Christians must be conscious at all times. It is for this reason that the a... [ Continue Reading ]