Verse 9. _YE_ ARE _A CHOSEN GENERATION_] The titles formerly given to the whole Jewish Church, _i.e._ to all the Israelites without exception, all who were in the covenant of God by circumcision, whet...
BUT YE ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION - In contradistinction from those who, by their disobedience, had rejected the Saviour as the foundation of hope. The people of God are often represented as his chosen o...
II. THE BLESSINGS AND PRIVILEGES OF ALL BELIEVERS CHAPTER 1:22-2:10 _ 1. The new birth (1 Peter 1:22)_ 2. Spiritual growth (1 Peter 2:1) 3. The privileges of believers as the holy and royal priesth...
1 Peter 1:22 to 1 Peter 2:10. The Christians, who were formerly pagans, are created a new race in Christ Jesus, and consecrated as a special priesthood of service to the whole world. Their life must b...
GENERATION. race. Greek. _genos._ See 1 Corinthians 12:10 (kind). ROYAL. Greek. _basileios._ Only here. Compare James 2:8; Revelation 1:6;...
_But ye are a chosen generation_ The glories that attach to the company of believers in Christ are brought before us in a mosaic of Old Testament phraseology. The "chosen generation" comes from Isaiah...
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...
St Peter applies to his Gentile readers, as the new Israel of God rescued from the slavery of sin, titles of honour which were used (1) in Exodus 19:5 of Israel as the Covenant people rescued from Egy...
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DISCOURSE: 2395 THE DIFFERENT STATES OF BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS 1 Peter 2:7. Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallo...
BUT YE ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD,— This imports them to be of one stock through their new birth; as the Israelites, who were by outward calling the chosen of God, were all _the seed...
_8. THE LIVING STONE AND SPIRITUAL HOUSE 2:3-10_ 1 Peter 2:3-4 if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious: unto whom coming, a living stone rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious. _Ex...
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Co...
VERSE 9. BUT YE ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION. That is, an elected race or people. This was once confined to the Jew only; now to the whole world. See how the apostle piles up the high titles. Not only a c...
24 Isa_40:6-8. 4 Our Lord, speaking to the chief priests and elders, told them that the kingdom of God would be taken from them and given to a nation bringing forth its fruits, in proof of which He a...
2:9 nation, (g-12) See Exodus 19:6 ....
In the *Old Testament, God chose the *Jews to be his special people. In Exodus 19:5-6, God says that all the *Jews who obeyed his laws would be his ‘royal priests’. And they would form a ‘holy nation’...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 V1 Therefore stop all evil behaviour. Do not cheat people. Do not pretend to be better than you are. Do not be jealous. Stop saying bad th...
Peter refers back to the *Old Testament. King Solomon built a temple in the city of Jerusalem about 950 years before the birth of Jesus (BC) (1 Kings 6-8). The temple was a special building where the...
BUT YE. — Like St. Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:13, St. Peter turns with an outburst of triumph to the happier and more practical and attractive theme. All the most splendid titles of the old Israel belo...
CHAPTER 6 THE PRIESTHOOD OF BELIEVERS 1 Peter 2:4 LEAVING the exhortation to individual duties, the Apostle turns now to describe the Christian society in relation to its Divine Founder, and tells b...
CHAPTER 5 CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD: ITS CHARACTER AND DUTIES 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 2:1 THAT holy lives have been lived in solitude none would venture to dispute, and that devout Christians have found...
Continuation of practical admonition with appeal to additional ground-principles illustrating the thesis of 1 Peter 1:10....
Passages of scripture proving that Christ is called stone are first utilised, then quoted, and finally expounded. The transition from _milk_ to the _stone_ may be explained by the prophecy _the hills...
f. The Church, God's new people, has all the privileges which belonged to the Jews. In enumerating them he draws upon a current conflation of Isaiah 43:20 f., ποτίσαι τὸ γένος μου το ἐκλεκτὸν (1) λαόν...
BUILDING ON THE PRECIOUS CORNER-STONE 1 Peter 2:1 It is easy to lay aside malice, guile and evil speaking, when we are constantly feeding on the unadulterated milk of spiritual truth. If you have ta...
In order to obey the injunctions, those to whom Peter writes are urged to put away all such things as are contrary to the spirit of love. In order to do this they will long for the sustenance of the W...
RESULTS OF OBEYING CHRIST In contrast, the obedient are an "elect race" (A.S.V.) in Christ (Revelation 14:13). They are set free from their sins by Christ's blood and made to be kings and priest in Go...
(8) But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:...
_You are....a purchased people, whom Christ purchased, bought and redeemed with the price of his precious blood. --- That you may declare his [4] virtues; i.e. the excellencies and perfections of God,...
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: (10) Wh...
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...
_THE HIGHEST OF ALL VOCATIONS_ ‘Ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation.’ 1 Peter 2:9 (R.V.) In the eyes of the early Church it was so splendid and sacred a distinction to be within...
9_But ye are a chosen generation, _or _race_. He again separates them from the unbelieving, lest driven by their example (as it is often the case) they should fall away from the faith. As, then, it is...
Thus cleansed therefore and born of the word, they were to put off all fraud, hypocrisy, envy, slander; and, as new-born babes, to seek for this milk of the understanding, in order to grow thereby (fo...
BUT YE ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION,.... Or "kindred"; the phrase is to be seen in the Septuagint, on Isaiah 43:20, to which, and the following verse, the apostle refers here, and in another part of this t...
But ye _are_ a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Ve...
_But ye Who have been born again of incorruptible seed_, and have _purified your souls by obeying the truth_, &c., (1 Peter 1:22,) and have _tasted that the Lord is gracious_, (1 Peter 2:3,) and are _...
BUT YE ARE A CHOSEN-PRIESTHOOD-SHOW FORTH THE PRAISES; these expressions are a combination of Exodus 19:5-6, and Isaiah 43:20-21, according to the Greek version. The idea is, that what God said of the...
BUT YE ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, AN HOLY NATION, A PECULIAR PEOPLE, THAT YE SHOULD SHOW FORTH THE PRAISES OF HIM WHO HATH CALLED YOU OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT;...
The royal priesthood of the Christians:...
Ch.2: 1 Timothy 6 Since the Word of God is the solid foundation of all, eternal blessing for us, it surely follows that we should gladly lay aside all that is contrary to It. Indeed, these evils liste...
PECULIAR PEOPLE: Or, a purchased people PRAISES: Or, virtues...
_ 1 Peter 2:9 ‘But you are. chosen race,. royal priesthood,. holy nation,. people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His ma...
1-10 Evil-speaking is a sign of malice and guile in the heart; and hinders our profiting by the word of God. A new life needs suitable food. Infants desire milk, and make the best endeavours for it w...
BUT YE; ye believers, in opposition to those reprobates that are disobedient to the word. He shows that those dignities and privileges, which were mentioned by Moses as belonging to their forefathers,...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians Blessed, then, are ye who are God-bearers, spirit-bearers, temple-bearers, bearers of holiness, adorned in all respects with the commandments of Jesus Christ, bei...
1 Peter 2:9 But G1161 you G5210 chosen G1588 generation G1085 royal G934 priesthood G2406 holy G40 nation G1484 special...
‘But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous lig...
GOD'S PURPOSE FOR HIS BEGOTTEN AGAIN AND REDEEMED PEOPLE (1 PETER 2:1). In view of the glorious future that is theirs as previously revealed, and the responsibility that is theirs, which will now be r...
The central thing in the preceding paragraph was the Stone with the structure erected on it. The sudden transition from the figure of babes growing to that of stones built up, is by no means character...
1 Peter 2:9. BUT YE ARE AN ELECT RACE. From these thoughts of terror Peter returns to the brighter side of the compensation which the believer has for temporal loss and trial, and instances in a singl...
BUT YE (υμεις δε). In contrast with the disobedient ones.AN ELECT RACE (γενος εκλεκτον). From Isaiah 43:20. The blood relation of the spiritual Israel (not the Jewish race) through the new birth...
PRIESTHOOD The New Testament priesthood, Summary: (1) Until the law was given the head of each family was the family priest. (Genesis 8:20); (Genesis 26:25); (Genesis 31:54). (2) When the law was p...
1 Peter 2:9 Predestination. I. It is impossible to read the Scriptures and not to see that there are some persons predestinated to glory. There are persons who, in the words of St. Paul, are vessels...
1 Peter 2:9 The True Israel. I. "Ye are a chosen generation," the word "generation" here meaning, not contemporaries, but the offspring of one common parent, the offshoots of one original stock. The...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,-_ This is what we are to lay aside, to put away from us, to banish altogether. The...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice,_ This is one of the old corruptible things, so put it away from you 1 Peter 2:1. _And all guile,_ All crafty tricks, all falsehood, exaggeration, do...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,_ Putting these evil things right away from you, having nothing further to do with...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: Ha...
CONTENTS: Exhortation to holiness and growth in view of Christ's great sacrifice. Christ's vicarious sufferings. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Peter. CONCLUSION: The Word of God is the proper and necessar...
1 Peter 2:4. _To whom coming as to a living stone._ The jews boasted of their temple, an undisputed blessing. But when the christians fled from Jerusalem, they took the true, the living temple with th...
BUT YOU ARE. "You who do believe have not stumbled or fallen against _the stone._ The titles of honor given to God's ancient people belong to you, both Jew and Gentile!" THE CHOSEN RACE. Deuteronomy 7...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 2:9. CHOSEN GENERATION.—These terms describe the new spiritual Israel in terms taken from the old Israel. God chose the Abrahamic race; God called out a particu...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 2:1 WHEREFORE LAYING ASIDE. Those who would wear the white robe of regeneration must lay aside the filthy garments (Zechariah 3:3) of the old carnal life. So St. Paul bids us put...
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and all envying, and all evil speakings (1 Peter 2:1), Set these things aside, we're to love one another with a pure heart fervently....
1 Corinthians 3:17; 1 Peter 1:2; 1 Peter 4:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:4;...
Generation [γ ε ν ο ς]. Better, Rev., race : a body with a common life and descent. Nation [ε θ ν ο ς]. People [λ α ο ς]. The distinction between these three words cannot be closely pressed. Race emph...
But ye — Who believe in Christ Are — In a higher sense than ever the Jews were. A chosen or elect race, a royal priesthood — "Kings and priests unto God," Revelation 1:6. As princes, ye have power wit...
In these words our apostle acquaints these believing Jews, who were built upon Christ, the foundation-stone, that the same titles did now belong to them in. more excellent manner as Christians, which...