Verse 14. _NOT FASHIONING YOURSELVES_] As the _offices_ of certain persons are known by the _garb_ or _livery_ they wear, so are transgressors: where we see the _world's livery_ we see the _world's_ _...
AS OBEDIENT CHILDREN - That is, conduct yourselves as becomes the children of God, by obeying his commands; by submitting to His will; and by manifesting unwavering confidence in him as your Father at...
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...
OBEDIENT CHILDREN. children (App-108.) of (App-17.) obedience. FASHIONING, &C. See Romans 12:2....
_as obedient children_ Literally, CHILDREN OF OBEDIENCE. The phrase is more or less a Hebraism, like "children of wrath," Ephesians 2:3, or the more closely parallel "children of disobedience" in Ephe...
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...
ὩΣ ΤΈΚΝΑ ὙΠΑΚΟΗ͂Σ. The _form_ of the expression is a Hebraism (cf. sons of Belial), but (as in the parallel passage, Ephesians 2:2, τοῖς υἱοῖς τῆς�) the phrase is used by St Peter to mean more than me...
ΥΠΑΚΟΉ (G5218) послушание, покорность (Brox). _Gen._ описания, "послушные дети" очень ценная черта (ВВС), ΣΥΣΧΗΜΑΤΙΖΌΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΣΥΣΧΗΜΑΤΊΖΟΜΑΙ (G4964) образовывать вместе, со...
AS OBEDIENT CHILDREN,— _As children of obedience;_ an usual Hebraism, by which persons are called the _children_ of that, to which they are addicted or devoted. "Obedience (says Dr. Heylin,) is a sure...
III. CALL TO HOLINESS 1:132:12 _1. Sobriety and Spiritual Readiness 1:13, 14_ 1 Peter 1:13 Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to b...
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: From sobriety of spirit and endurance of hope, he passes to obedience, holiness, and reverential fea...
VERSE 14 AS OBEDIENT CHILDREN, NOT FASHIONING YOURSELVES. Recognized as children that is, children and heirs as set forth in verse 4. And more than children obedient children; you must not fashion you...
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...
1:14 conformed (h-6) 'Conformed' here expresses a state. The path in which they walk is the sense here. 'Conforming yourselves' is too active and intentional. As Romans 12:2 ....
GOVERNORS] i.e. of provinces. OBEDIENT CHILDREN] RV 'children of obedience,' a Hebrew mode of expression (cp. Ephesians 2:2; Ephesians 5:6), which implies that obedience was the ruling passion of the...
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...
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...
Children often look like their parents and behave like them. Christians are now children of God, because God is their Father in heaven. God is holy. God wants his children to be like him. They must ha...
(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...
AS OBEDIENT CHILDREN. — Literally, _as children of obedience_ — children, _i.e.,_ in the sense of relationship, not of age. It is characteristic of the writer to keep one thought underlying many digre...
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...
ὡς, _inasmuch as you are, cf._ 1Pe 2:2; 1 Peter 2:5; 1 Peter 3:7, etc. τέκνα ὑπακοῆς, _obedient_ corresponds to St. Paul's υἱοὶ τῆς ἀπειθείας (Colossians 3:6;...
_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...
BECAUSE SALVATION HAS ARRIVED Once Peter made it plain how specially favored Christ's followers were to be able to know and participate in salvation's plan, he went on to appeal for those living under...
(8) As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: (8) He passes from faith and hope, to the fruits of them both, which are understood in the name of...
_As children of obedience; i.e. as obedient children. (Witham)_...
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 Re 1-22, and live upon that inheritance which is Christ himself, now by fait...
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...
_CHRISTIAN OBEDIENCE_ ‘As obedient children.’ 1 Peter 1:14 There are three, and only three, motives for obedience: Interest; Fear; Love. There is the obedience of the hireling; of the slave; of the...
14_As obedient children _He first intimates that we are called by the Lord to the privilege and honor of adoption through the Gospel; and, secondly, that we are adopted for this end, that he might hav...
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...
AS OBEDIENT CHILDREN,.... Or "children of obedience". This may be connected either with what goes before, that seeing they were children of God, by adopting grace, and in regeneration brought to the o...
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: Ver. 14. _Not fashioning yourselves_] συσχηματιζομενοι. As a player is fashioned to the obscene speech...
_Wherefore_ Since your lot is fallen into these glorious times, wherein you enjoy such high privileges above what the people of God formerly enjoyed; since the blessings which are set before you are s...
IGNORANCE; their unconverted state....
AS OBEDIENT CHILDREN, NOT FASHIONING YOURSELVES ACCORDING TO THE FORMER LUSTS IN YOUR IGNORANCE;...
AN ADMONITION TO LEAD A GODLY LIFE. The need of holiness:...
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 1:14 ‘As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance'_ ‘AS OBEDIENT CHILDREN' -i.e. ‘children marked by obedience' (Robertson p. 88).. mode...
13-16 As the traveller, the racer, the warrior, and the labourer, gathered in their long and loose garments, that they might be ready in their business, so let Christians do by their minds and affect...
AS OBEDIENT CHILDREN; Greek, children of obedience, by a usual Hebraism, for obedient children. So _children of disobedience,_ EPHESIANS 2:2 COLOSSIANS 3:6. And this we may understand either absolutel...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III quasi filii obedientiae, non configurati prioribus desideriis, quae fuerunt in ignomntia; sed secundum eum, qui vocavit vos, sanctum, et ipsi sancti sitis in o...
1 Peter 1:14 as G5613 obedient G5218 children G5043 not G3361 yourselves G4964 (G5730) former G4386 lusts G1939 in...
IN THE LIGHT OF THEIR GREAT PRIVILEGE AND BLESSING THEY SHOULD SET THEMSELVES TO LIVE ACCORDINGLY (1 PETER 1:13). In the light of the wonder of the message that has come to them, and of the sanctifyin...
1 Peter 1:14. AS CHILDREN OF OBEDIENCE: A second counsel is thus introduced, dealing with a holiness which is to be not less complete than the hope. The one rises naturally out of the other. Hope is a...
The rapid outline of the magnificence of the salvation prepares the way for what is to be urged in the form of duty. The Preface, which has so much of the Pauline style both in idea and in conciliator...
AS CHILDREN OF OBEDIENCE (ως τεκνα υπακοης). A common Hebraism (descriptive genitive frequent in LXX and N.T., like υιο της απειθειας, children of disobedience, in Ephesians 2:2) suggested by υπακο...
1 Peter 1:14 Holiness. I. Holiness in the heart, or as it works its way down to the depth of our nature. (1) In their unregenerate state men always fashion themselves after the pattern of their lust...
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, 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...
BE OBEDIENT. "Your sense of being God's child will cause you to turn away from the things you did in your ignorance!...
_Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind._ TIGHTEN THE BELT “Wherefore,” for this reason, that your salvation was so great an object of interest to prophets and to angels, it becomes you to maintai...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 1:13. BE SOBER.—The word suggests a sobriety of the Nazarite type. TO THE END.—Margin, perfectly; hope with a hope that lacks nothing of completeness. 1 Peter...
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 4:2; 1 Peter 4:3; 1 Thessalonians 4:5; Acts 17:30; Colossia
Obedient children [τ ε κ ν α υ π α κ ο η ς]. Literally, and more correctly, as Rev., children of obedience. See on Mark 3:17. The Christian is represented as related to the motive principle of his lif...
STRENGTHENING THE BRETHREN 1 Peter 1:10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By way of introduction we wish to emphasize the concluding message of our last sermon. 1 Peter 1:7 tells us of the trial of faith. It is de...
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...
Your desires — Which ye had while ye were ignorant of God....
The next duty he exhorts them to, is to answer the engagements which their adoption laid them under; they were now the children of God, and as such must, 1. Be OBEDIENT to their heavenly Father, walk...