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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   Day 346, 12 December 2025 - 20th Day of Advent   
      
   1) 1 Peter 1, 1 Peter 2, 1 Peter 3, 1 Peter 4, 1 Peter 5   
      
   1 Peter 1   
      
   Salutation   
      
   1 (Ac 16:6-7; Jas 1:1) Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,   
   To the refugees scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia,   
   and Bithynia,   
   2 (Ro 11:2; 2Th 2:13; Heb 12:24) elect according to the foreknowledge   
   of God the Father, through sanctification by the Spirit,   
   for obedience and sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ:   
   Grace to you and peace be multiplied.   
      
   [1] Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout   
   Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,   
   [2] Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through   
   sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of   
   Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.   
      
   A Living Hope   
      
   3 (1Co 15:20; 2Co 1:3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,   
   who according to His abundant mercy has given us a new birth into a living   
   hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,   
   4 (Col 1:5; 2Ti 4:8) to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that does   
   not fade away, kept in heaven for you,   
   5 (Eph 2:8) who are protected by the power of God through faith for   
   a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.   
   6 (Jas 1:2; Isa 61:3; Ro 5:2) In this you greatly rejoice, even though now,   
   if for a little while, you have had to suffer various trials,   
   7 (Job 23:10; Pr 17:3; Isa 48:10) in order that the genuineness of your faith,   
   which is more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tried by fire,   
   may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus   
   Christ,   
   8 (Jn 20:29; Heb 11:27) whom, having not seen, you love; and in whom, though   
   you do not see Him now, you believe and you rejoice with joy unspeakable and   
   full of glory,   
   9 (Ro 6:22) receiving as the result of your faith the salvation of your souls.   
   10 (Mt 13:17; Lk 10:24) Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied   
   of the grace that should come to you have inquired and searched diligently,   
   11 (2Pe 1:21; Isa 52:13-14) seeking the events and time the Spirit of Christ,   
   who was within them, signified when He foretold the sufferings of Christ   
   and the glories to follow.   
   12 (Jn 15:26; Da 8:13) It was revealed to them that they were not serving   
   themselves but you, concerning the things which are now reported to you by   
   those who have preached the gospel to you through the Holy Spirit, who was   
   sent from heaven-things into which the angels desire to look.   
      
   [3] Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according   
   to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the   
   resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,   
   [4] To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not   
   away, reserved in heaven for you,   
   [5] Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to   
   be revealed in the last time.   
   [6] Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are   
   in heaviness through manifold temptations:   
   [7] That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that   
   perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and   
   honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:   
   [8] Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet   
   believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:   
   [9] Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.   
   [10] Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently,   
   who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:   
   [11] Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was   
   in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ,   
   and the glory that should follow.   
   [12] Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they   
   did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have   
   preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven;   
   which things the angels desire to look into.   
      
   A Call to Holy Living   
      
   13 (1Pe 4:7; 5:8) Therefore guard your minds, be sober, and hope to the end   
   for the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.   
   14 (Ro 12:2; Ac 17:30) As obedient children do not conduct yourselves   
   according to the former lusts in your ignorance.   
   15 (2Co 7:1; Heb 12:14) But as He who has called you is holy, so be holy   
   in all your conduct,   
   16 (Lev 11:44; 19:2) because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."   
   (Lev 11:44; 19:2; 20:7.)   
   17 (Mt 6:9; 2Co 7:1) And if you address as Father the One who impartially   
   judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves in fear during the   
   time of your sojourning.   
   18 (1Co 6:20) For you know that you were not redeemed from your vain way   
   of life inherited from your fathers with perishable things, like silver   
   or gold,   
   19 (Jn 1:29; Ex 12:5) but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb   
   without blemish and without spot.   
   20 (Eph 1:4; Col 1:26) He was foreordained before the creation of the world,   
   but was revealed in these last times for you.   
   21 (Heb 2:9; Jn 12:44) Through Him you believe in God who raised Him up   
   from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope might be   
   in God.   
   22 (Heb 13:1; Jas 4:8) Since your souls have been purified by obedience to   
   the truth through the Spirit unto a genuine brotherly love, love one another   
   deeply with a pure heart,   
   23 (Heb 4:12; 1Pe 1:3) for you have been born again, not from perishable seed,   
   but imperishable, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.   
   24 (Isa 40:6-8; Jas 1:10-11) For   
   "All flesh is as grass,   
   and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.   
   The grass withers, and its flower falls away,   
   25 (Isa 40:8) but the word of the Lord endures forever."   
   This is the word that was preached to you.   
      
   [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;   
   [14] As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former   
   lusts in your ignorance:   
   [15] But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of   
   conversation;   
   [16] Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.   
   [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:   
   [18] Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,   
   as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from   
   your fathers;   
   [19] But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and   
   without spot:   
   [20] Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was   
   manifest in these last times for you,   
      
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