Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians
and truth, as those who have forsaken the vain, empty talk and error of the multitude, and "believed in Him who raised up our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead, and gave Him glory,"[10]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III
Et Petrus similia dicit in Epistola: "Ut fides vestra et spes sit in Deum, cure animas vestras castas effeceritis in obedientia veritatis; "[234]
1 PETER 1:21 pistou,j A majority of the Committee preferred the more striking expression pistou,j, preserved in A B 398 vg, and regarded pisteu,ontaj (read by the overwhelming mass of witnesses) and...
Verse 21. _WHO BY HIM DO BELIEVE IN GOD_] This is supposed to refer to the _Gentiles_, who never knew the true God till they heard the preaching of the Gospel: the Jews had known him long before, but...
WHO BY HIM DO BELIEVE IN GOD - Faith is sometimes represented particularly as exercised in God, and sometimes in Christ. It is always a characteristic of true religion that a man has faith in God. Com...
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...
Here the practical aim of the epistle becomes at the earliest possible moment clearly manifest. The writer finds in the central reality of the Christian faith the example, sacrifice, and resurrection...
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_who by him do believe in God_ Literally, WHO THROUGH HIM ARE FAITHFUL (or BELIEVING) TOWARDS GOD; the adjective expressing a permanent attribute of character rather than the mere act which would be e...
INTRODUCTORY EXHORTATION FOUNDED UPON THE BENEDICTION 1 Peter 1:13 to 1 Peter 2:10 13–25. 13 The new life of hope, faith and privilege to which you have been begotten involves corresponding responsi...
ΔΙʼ ὙΜΑ͂Σ, _for the sake of you Gentiles_, cf. Ephesians 3:5; Romans 16:26. The revelation of Christ was made for your sake, because it is through Christ that you are enabled to be _faithful as restin...
ΈΓΕΊΡΑΝΤΑ _aor. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΕΓΕΊΡΩ (G1453) поднимать. _Aor._ указывает на специфическое завершенное действие, ΔΌΝΤΑ _aor. act. part. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать, дарить, ΏΣΤΕ (G5620) с _inf....
DISCOURSE: 2389 THE FATHERS PART IN THE WORK OF REDEMPTION 1 Peter 1:20. _Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by him do b...
WHO BY HIM DO BELIEVE— _Who by him,_—by his means,—or on his account,—_do trust in God._ The expression is remarkable; and the meaning seems to be, that Christians, who before their conversion were ig...
_4._ The Christian's Ransom 1:18-21 1 Peter 1:18-19 knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers; but...
Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. BY (THROUGH) HIM. Compare "the faith which is by Him" (Acts 3:16); His...
VERSE 21 WHO BY HIM DO BELIEVE IN GOD, WHO RAISED HIM UP FROM THE DEAD. Who by him that is, by Christ do believe in God. Now, this can not be said of the Jew. He believed in God before Christ came. Of...
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...
1:21 God. (m-28) Or 'so that your faith and hope are in God.'...
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...
Jesus says that the only way that a person can come to God the Father is through Jesus Christ his Son (John 14:6). People of many different religions say that they believe in God. If they do not belie...
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...
WHO BY HIM DO BELIEVE IN GOD. — The sentence is joined on to the foregoing verse just as in 1 Peter 1:5, “Who are kept.” The “who” might be rendered by “and you;” and the clause adds a kind of proof o...
(13-25) GENERAL APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING. — This salvation being so magnificent, the Asiatic Hebrews must cling to it tenaciously, in holiness, in reverence caused by consideration of the cost of...
CHAPTER 4 THE CHRISTIAN'S IDEAL, AND THE STEPS THEREUNTO 1 Peter 1:13 THE Apostle, who has set forth the character of the Christian's election, who has given to the converts large assurance for the...
διʼ ὑμᾶς, _for the sake of you Gentiles, i.e._, ἵνα ὑμᾶς προσαγάγῃ τῷ θεῷ, 1 Peter 3:18. The resurrection of Jesus and His glorification are the basis of their faith in God and inspire not merely fait...
_Practical admonitions_. In this section St. Peter is engrossed with the conception of the Church as the new Israel which has been delivered from idolatry the spiritual Egypt by a _far more excellent...
REDEEMED AND PURIFIED 1 Peter 1:13 The appeal for a holy life is enforced by considering the great cost of our redemption and the great hope which is opened before us. Ours must be the girded loins,...
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...
THE PRICELESS NATURE OF CHRIST'S BLOOD Further, Christians can approach this loving Father because they know He brought them back from sin with the blood of His own Son. Christians were not bought bac...
And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: (18) Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed w...
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...
21_Who believe _The manifestation of Christ refers not to all indiscriminately, but belongs to those only on whom he by the Gospel shines. But we must notice the words, _Who by him believe in God: _he...
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 BY HIM DO BELIEVE IN GOD,.... Christ, as God, is the object of faith; as Mediator, he is the way to the Father, by which men come to him, believe in him and lay hold upon him, as their covenant Go...
Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. Ver. 21. _Might be in God_] And so in a safer hand than our own; he hath...
_Forasmuch as ye know_, &c. That is, be holy in your whole behaviour, because ye know what an immense price your redemption cost; _that you were not redeemed with corruptible things_ Such as all visib...
BY HIM; it is through Christ alone that we come to God as our heavenly Father, and exercise true faith in him. John 14:6. MIGHT BE IN GOD; rest on what God, not man, has done....
The reason for the holiness of Christians:...
WHO BY HIM DO BELIEVE IN GOD, THAT RAISED HIM UP FROM THE DEAD, AND GAVE HIM GLORY, THAT YOUR FAITH AND HOPE MIGHT BE IN GOD. That is a characteristic of the Christians: they invoke God as their Fathe...
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 1:21 ‘who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God'._ ‘WHO' -these Christians. _‘THROUGH HIM'_ -The only way...
17-25 Holy confidence in God as a Father, and awful fear of him as a Judge, agree together; and to regard God always as a Judge, makes him dear to us as a Father. If believers do evil, God will visit...
WHO BY HIM DO BELIEVE IN GOD; both as revealing God to you, MATTHEW 11:27 1 THESSALONIANS 1:14; and making way for you to God, who, out of Christ, is a consuming fire, so that there is no coming to hi...
1 Peter 1:21 who G3588 through G1223 Him G846 believe G4100 (G5723) in G1519 God G2316 raised G1453 ...
‘Who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake, who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glo...
RECOGNISING WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR THEM THEY SHOULD LIVE THEIR LIVES WITH GREATEST CARE (1 PETER 1:17). The emphasis on obedience continues, and now it is linked with God's remedy through the blood of...
1 Peter 1:21. WHO THROUGH HIM HAVE FAITH TOWARD GOD. The better accredited reading replaces the participle which the A. V. renders ‘who believe' by the adjective ‘believing,' or ‘faithful,' which is e...
The exhortation to a walk in holiness is followed immediately by an exhortation to a walk in godly fear. The way in which this section is connected with the preceding shows that the latter charge is g...
WHO THROUGH HIM ARE BELIEVERS IN GOD (τους δι' αυτου πιστους εις θεον). Accusative case in apposition with υμας (you), "the through him (that is Christ as in 1 Peter 1:8; Acts 3:16) believers (πιστ...
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 1:17. _And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:_ Not in unbelieving fear, but in that...
1 Peter 1:13. _Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;_ This is Peter's practical appli...
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._ 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...
THROUGH HIM. Peter preaches the same gospel that Paul preaches. Both show the importance of faith in Christ! Christ is the _door_ through which we may come to God! ARE FIXED ON GOD. "Our faith and hop...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:20 God planned when he would send Christ (Christ was FOREKNOWN, compare v. 1 Peter 1:2). He chose to reveal him at the time in history when th
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:13 The inheritance promised to followers of Christ should motivate them to set their hope entirely on their future reward (vv. 1 Peter 1:13) and to live in fear of the God wh
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 1:17. THE FATHER.—Better, “a Father.” God apprehended as Father through our apprehension of the Sonship of Christ. _Plumptre_ reminds us that “the sequel shows...
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 Peter 1:11; 1 Peter 3:22; 1 Timothy 1:1; Acts 2:24; Acts 2:32;...
Which raised. Compare Romans 4:24. That your faith and hope might be in God. Some render, that your faith should also be toward God....
THE BOOK OF BOOKS 1 Peter 1:10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is said on one occasion, when Sir Walter Scott was sick, he called his son requesting him to bring him THE book. His son said, "Your library is...
Who through him believe — For all our faith and hope proceed from the power of his resurrection. In God that raised Jesus, and gave him glory — At his ascension. Without Christ we should only dread Go...