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Verse 7. _UNTO YOU THEREFORE WHICH BELIEVE_] You, both Jews and
Gentiles.
HE IS _PRECIOUS_] Ὑμιν ουν ἡ τιμη τοις
πιστευουσιν· _The honour_ _is to you who believe_; i.e.
the honour of being in this...
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UNTO YOU THEREFORE WHICH BELIEVE - Christians are often called simply
“believers,” because faith in the Saviour is one of the prominent
characteristics by which they are distinguished from their fello...
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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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UNTO. To.
BELIEVE. App-150.
_ HE IS_ PRECIOUS. Greek. _time_. the honour, or preciousness. The
verb to be supplied is "belongs", or "attaches". The preciousness in
Christ is reckoned unto you that b...
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_Unto you therefore which believe he is precious_ More accurately,
UNTO YOU THEREFORE THAT BELIEVE THERE IS THE HONOUR. The last words
stand in direct connexion with the "shall not be ashamed" of the...
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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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ὙΜΙ͂Ν. The A.V. renders “unto you that believe He is
precious,” _i.e._ in your eyes. The R.V. marg., “In your sight …
is the preciousness,” or “For you … is the honour,” but the
R.V. text is _For you...
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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...
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DISCOURSE: 2394
CHRIST PRECIOUS TO BELIEVERS
1 Peter 2:7. _Unto you therefore which believe he is precious_.
THERE is a great difference between the views of natural and spiritual
men. This exists ev...
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HE IS PRECIOUS— _Is this honour,_— η Τιμη, That is, "of being
built upon that sure foundation, for which you willhave no reason to
be ashamed." In using the word τιμη, St. Peter seems to have
alluded...
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_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...
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Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which
be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is
made the head of the corner,
Application of the same Script...
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VERSE 7. UNTO YOU, THEREFORE, WHICH BELIEVE HE IS PRECIOUS.
That is, on the believer is the honor conferred of being built on him,
and of not being ashamed, and in that sense precious. Peter here
app...
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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...
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2:7 disobedient, (d-12) Or 'disbelieving.' See ch. 3.20 and 4.17.
corner, (e-28) Or 'is become chief corner stone,' Psalms 118:22 ....
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These three verses are *Old Testament *prophecies about Jesus. A
*prophecy is a message from God. Sometimes it describes what is going
to happen. These verses *prophesied that God would send Jesus. Bu...
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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...
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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...
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HE IS PRECIOUS. — Rather, _Unto you therefore, the believers,
belongs the honour._ So said in reference to His being called “a
stone elect, _honoured_,” taken in conjunction with “shall not be
ashamed...
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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...
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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...
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Continuation of practical admonition with appeal to additional
ground-principles illustrating the thesis of 1 Peter 1:10....
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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...
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f. The second quotation is connected with the first by means of the
parenthetic interpretation: _The “precious”-ness of the stone is
for you who believe but for the unbelievers it is … “a stone of
stu...
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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...
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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...
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A SPIRITUAL TEMPLE OF "LIVING STONES"
The apostle portrays the church as God's spiritual temple (1
Corinthians 3:9-17). Its members are living stones because they are
part of the body of the living Lo...
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(7) Unto you therefore which believe [he is] precious: but unto them
which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the
same is made the head of the corner,
(7) By setting the most ble...
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Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion
a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him
shall not be confounded. (7) Unto you therefore which believe...
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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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_THE PRECIOUSNESS OF CHRIST_
‘Unto you therefore which believe He is precious.’
1 Peter 2:7
How unspeakably precious is Christ ‘set forth as a propitiation for
sin’—‘Who Himself bare our sins in Hi...
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7._Unto you therefore which believe _God having pronounced Christ to
be a precious and a chosen stone, Peter draws the inference that he is
so to us. For, no doubt, Christ is there described such as w...
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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...
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UNTO YOU THEREFORE WHICH BELIEVE,.... And such are not all they that
can say their creed, or give their assent to the articles of it; nor
all that believe a divine revelation, and that the Scriptures...
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Unto you therefore which believe _he is_ precious: but unto them which
be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is
made the head of the corner,
Ver. 7. _He is precious_] Gr....
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1 Pet. 2:7, 8. "Unto you therefore which believe, he is precious; but
unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders
disallowed, the same is become the head of the corner, and a stone of...
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_Wherefore also_ To which purpose; _it is contained in the Scripture_
In Isaiah 28:16, the passage before referred to. _Behold, I lay in
Sion a chief corner-stone_ To support and hold together the who...
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THE STONE; Christ.
THE BUILDERS; Jewish rulers. Matthew 21:42; Acts 4:11....
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Lively stones built up on Christ:...
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UNTO YOU, THEREFORE, WHICH BELIEVE, HE IS PRECIOUS; BUT UNTO THEM
WHICH BE DISOBEDIENT, THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS DISALLOWED, THE
SAME IS MADE THE HEAD OF THE CORNER,...
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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...
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HE IS PRECIOUS:
Or, he is an honour...
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_ 1 Peter 2:7 ‘This precious value, then, is for you who believe.
But for those who disbelieve, “The stone which the builders
rejected, this became the very corner stone,”'_
‘THIS PRECIOUS VALUE' -‘It...
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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...
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PRECIOUS; the margin reads it, according to the Greek, an honour;
either the abstract is put for the concrete, an honour, for
honourable, or _precious, _ (as the text hath it), and then the sense
is p...
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1 Peter 2:7 Therefore G3767 you G5213 who G3588 believe G4100 (G5723)
precious G5092 but G1161 disobedient G544 ...
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‘For you therefore who believe is the preciousness (or ‘the
honour'), but for such as disbelieve, “The stone which the builders
rejected, the same was made the head of the corner,”
This could indicate...
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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...
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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...
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1 Peter 2:7. FOR YOU, THEREFORE, WHO BELIEVE IS THE HONOUR. The
statement of the dignity of the Christian standing is introduced in
the form both of an inference from the revealed will of God as
decla...
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THE PRECIOUSNESS
(η τιμη). Or "the honour." Explanation of εντιμον and ου
μη καταισχυνθη and only true "for you which believe"
(τοις πιστευουσιν ethical dative of articular present
active participl...
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1 Peter 2:7
Believers and Unbelievers.
I. The relation which Jesus Christ sustains to believers: "Unto you
therefore which believe He is precious." (1) The first element in our
idea of preciousness...
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1 Peter 2:7
The Preciousness of Christ.
The writer, in some four or five verses of the chapter, has been
employing the image of a building, or rather of a temple, to describe
the relation existing be...
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1 Peter 2:6
Christ the One Foundation.
Let us consider a few of the senses in which Christ makes good this
title of corner-stone.
I. How, do we think, did the first preachers to the heathen win
conv...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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FOR YOU THAT BELIEVE. "He is very great in value to you who believe in
him, because you are honored by being built on him." See Revelation
3:12. WHO DO NOT BELIEVE. "For the unbeliever, who rejects Ch...
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1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 2:7 Unbelievers will find this prophecy from
Psalms 118:22 fulfilled. The STONE the BUILDERS rejected is Jesus, th
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
1 Peter 2:4.—The figure is now changed, and the apostle deals with
the Christian Church rather than the Christian individual. Two things
were present to his mind—the ma...
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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...
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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....
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1 Peter 1:8; 1 Peter 2:8; Acts 26:19; Acts 4:11; Acts 4:12;...
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He is precious [η τ ι μ η]. Wrong. Render, as Rev., For you
therefore which believe is the preciousness (honor, in margin).
Is made the head of the corner [ε γ ε ν η θ η ε ι ς κ ε φ
α λ η ν γ ω ν ι α...
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CHRIST THE LIVING STONE
1 Peter 2:4
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
One of the striking beauties of the Word of God, is the commonplace
similitudes which abound in its writings. It is marvelous how the Holy
Spi...
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To them who believe, he is become the head of the corner — The chief
corner stone, on which the whole building rests. Unbelievers too will
at length find him such to their sorrow, Matthew 21:44. Psalm...