1 Peter 1:2

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1 Peter 1:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Elect

The foreknowledge

Romans 11:2

Sanctification

2 Thessalonians 2:13

Unto

Sprinkling

Hebrews 9:19

Hebrews 11:28

Hebrews 12:24

Be

Isaiah 55:7

2 Peter 1:2

Jude 1:2

General references

Bible References

Elect

But you are a chosen race,

a royal priesthood,

a holy nation,

a people for His possession,

so that you may proclaim the praises

of the One who called you out of darkness
into His marvelous light.

For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be His own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

I will produce descendants from Jacob,
and heirs to My mountains from Judah;
My chosen ones will possess it,
and My servants will dwell there.

Unless those days were limited, no one would survive. But those days will be limited because of the elect.

Unless the Lord limited those days, no one would survive. But He limited those days because of the elect, whom He chose.

Will not God grant justice to His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay to help them?

You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.

For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he pleads with God against Israel?

For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight.

In love

Therefore, God’s chosen ones, holy and loved, put on heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience,

This is why I endure all things for the elect: so that they also may obtain salvation, which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to build up the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,

The Elder:

To the elect lady and her children: I love all of you in the truth—and not only I, but also all who have come to know the truth—

The foreknowledge

Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.

known from long ago.

For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.

And what if He did this to make known the riches of His glory on objects of mercy that He prepared beforehand for glory—

God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he pleads with God against Israel?

Sanctification

“And now I commit you to God and to the message of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of God’s good news. My purpose is that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

But it is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became God-given wisdom for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,

And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

But we must always thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

Unto

By obedience to the truth, having purified yourselves for sincere love of the brothers, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

We have received grace and apostleship through Him to bring about the obedience of faith among all the nations,

on behalf of His name,

for if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

The report of your obedience has reached everyone. Therefore I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good, yet innocent about what is evil.

and every high-minded thing that is raised up against the knowledge of God, taking every thought captive to obey Christ.

After He was perfected, He became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey Him,

Sprinkling

For when every command had been proclaimed by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll itself and all the people,

By faith he instituted the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch the Israelites.

to Jesus (mediator of a new covenant), and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.

Be

Let the wicked one abandon his way
and the sinful one his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord,
so He may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for He will freely forgive.

May grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

General references

They must take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses where they eat them.

From the oil remaining in his palm the priest will put some on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the restitution offering.

“Tell Aaron and his sons how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.