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1 PETER 1:23 me,nontoj
After me,nontoj the Textus Receptus, in company with K L P most
minuscules vg syrp eth, adds eivj to.n aivw/na. The phrase, which is
an intrusion from ver....
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Verse 23. _BEING BORN AGAIN_] For being born of Abraham's seed will
not avail to the entering of the kingdom of heaven.
_NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED_] By no human generation, or earthly means;
_but of in...
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BEING BORN AGAIN - See the notes at John 3:3.
NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED - “Not by virtue of any descent from human
parents” - Doddridge. The result of such a birth, or of being
begotten in this way - fo...
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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...
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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...
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BEING. Having been.
BORN. Same as "begotten", 1 Peter 1:3.
SEED. Greek. _spora._ Only here.
WORD. App-121.
WHICH LIVETH, &C. = living (App-170.) and abiding (see p. 1511).
FOREVER. All the texts...
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_being born again_ Better, HAVING BEEN BEGOTTEN AGAIN, the verb being
the same as that in 1 Peter 1:3. The "corruptible seed" is that which
is the cause of man's natural birth, and the preposition whi...
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ἈΝΑΓΕΓΕΝΝΗΜΈΝΟΙ; cf. 1 Peter 1:3, the only other place
where the word occurs. The verses which follow state the obligation
and the source of Christian love. They have been brought into a new
state of...
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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...
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SEEING YE HAVE PURIFIED YOUR SOULS, &C.— _When through the Spirit ye
have purged your hearts by obeying the truth, so that you are become
capable of fraternal affection without disguise, See that you...
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_5. BROTHERLY LOVE 1:22-25_
1 Peter 1:22-23 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience
to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another
from the heart fervently: having be...
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Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by
the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
Christian brotherhood flows from new birth of an imperishable seed,
God's abi...
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VERSE 23--BEING BORN AGAIN, NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED.
This may, and does, no doubt, refer the parties addressed back to
their conversion. This is compared to a birth. Such a result is
produced from an...
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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...
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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...
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BEING BORN AGAIN] RV 'having been begotten again': cp. 1 Peter 1:3.
NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED, BUT OF INCORRUPTIBLE] cp. John 1:12; 1 John
3:9. BY THE WORD] We need not discuss whether 'the word' means...
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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...
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The ‘word of the *Lord’ (God) can refer to the Bible. It also
means the good news that God saves people from *sin through Jesus
Christ. When people hear or read this good news, it is like a seed
that...
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BEING BORN AGAIN. — Rather, _Having been begotten again._ It is not
part of the exhortation, as though they had still to be thus begotten,
but assigns the moral grounds for the exhortation. It is logi...
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(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...
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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 s...
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The combination of purification of souls with love of the brotherhood
suggests that the temptations to relapses were due to former
intimacies and relationships which were not overcome by the spiritual...
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ἀναγεγεννημένοι. So St. John ἀγαπῶμεν
ἀλλήλους ὅτι … πᾶς ὁ ἀγαπῶν ἐκ τοῦ
θεοῦ γεγέννηται; _cf._ Ephesians 4:17; Ephesians 5:2.
ἐκ σπορᾶς ἀφθάρτου, _i.e._, of God regarded as
Father and perhaps also as...
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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,...
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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...
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PURIFIED IN OBEYING THE TRUTH
Their souls had been cleansed from sin's defilement, at the very
moment they obeyed the truth. The truth is the word of God (John
17:17), which was delivered by the Holy...
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Thus this new birth, common to you all, should form between you an
union much more stable and solid than that formed in you by the ties
of blood. (Bible de Vence)...
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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...
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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...
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23_Being born again _Here is another reason for an exhortation, —
that since they were new men and born again of God, it behoved them to
form a life worthy of God and of their spiritual regeneration....
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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...
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BEING BORN AGAIN,.... As they were of God, according to his abundant
mercy, by the resurrection of Christ, to a lively hope of a glorious
inheritance; as in 1 Peter 1:3 and therefore seeing they were...
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Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by
the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
Ver. 23. _Born again_] A man shall never have occasion to curse the
day of his...
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_Seeing you have purified your souls_ By applying to this fountain
which God has opened for sin and for uncleanness, and by believing and
_obeying the truth_, which God hath appointed to be the grand...
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NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED; not as at first, of mortal parents, born to
die.
THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH LIVETH AND ABIDETH FOR EVER; and therefore
communicates and nourishes life which will be eternal. Trut...
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BEING BORN AGAIN, NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED, BUT OF INCORRUPTIBLE, BY
THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH LIVETH AND ABIDETH FOREVER....
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The quality of Christian love:...
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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),...
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_ 1 Peter 1:23 ‘for you have been born again not of seed which is
perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and abiding
word of God.'_
‘FOR' -Which connects this verse with the previous...
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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...
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BEING BORN AGAIN: this may refer either:
1. To the general exhortation to holiness, 1 PETER 1:14,15, and then
the argument runs thus: Ye are in your regeneration become the
children of God, and there...
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1 Peter 1:23 again G313 (G5746) not G3756 of G1537 corruptible G5349
seed G4701 but G235 incorruptible G862 through...
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‘Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth
unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart
fervently, having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed,...
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BEING BEGOTTEN AGAIN OF THE LIVING AND ETERNAL WORD OF GOD HAS
PURIFIED THEIR SOULS IN OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH, AND THIS MUST WORK
ITSELF OUT IN LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER (1 PETER 1:22).
He now outlines wha...
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The exhortation to brotherly love, which is next introduced, is not
without a living connection with the preceding. The circumspect walk
which has been enjoined is a walk such as befits those who are...
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1 Peter 1:23. BEING BORN AGAIN, or rather, HAVING BEEN BEGOTTEN AGAIN.
On this see also 1 Peter 1:3. The tense denotes a subsisting state due
to an act in the past, and, therefore, here a new life in...
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HAVING BEEN BEGOTTEN AGAIN
(αναγεγεννημενο). Perfect passive participle of
αναγενναω, which see in verse 1 Peter 1:2.NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE
SEED
(ουκ εκ σπορας φθαρτης). Ablative with εκ as the
source...
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1 Peter 1:23
The New Birth.
I. Man's inner and nobler life is not like his outer life, a life
carried on in many of its most important functions unknown to himself.
That lower life has its youth and...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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FOR THROUGH. "It is through God's _truth_ revealed in the Good News
about the Kingdom (Matthew 13:19 and note) which is the seed that grew
up in your hearts (compare Galatians 3:1-2), that you have be...
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1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:23 LIVING AND ABIDING WORD OF GOD. All
written Scripture (see v. 1 Peter 1:25), but especially the gospel....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 15:53; 1 Corinthians 15:54; 1 John 3:9; 1 John 5:18;...
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Being born again [α ν α γ ε γ ε ν ν η μ ε ν ο ι]. Rev.,
having been begotten again. Compare James 1:18.
Of [ε κ] seed - by [δ ι α] the word. Note the difference in the
prepositions; the former denoti...
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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...
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Which liveth — Is full of divine virtue. And abideth the same for
ever....