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passions as ourselves; and he prayed earnestly, that it should not rain; and it rained not on the earth, during three years and six months:

19 and again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth put forth its fruit.

20 My brethren, if any one among you stray from the truth, and one turn him back; 21 know ye, that he who turneth back a sinner from the error of his way, will save his soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.

1 Pet. iv. 8.

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THE

FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL

OF

PETER.

CHAPTER I.

PETER, an apostle of Jesus

Christ, to the sojourners dispersed throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia;

2 chosen, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, with sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience, and cleansing by the blood of Jesus Christ: grace, and peace, be multiplied to you.

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his great mercy, hath regenerated us, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to a living hope;

4 even to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away,

5 reserved in heaven for you; who, by the power of God, are secured through faith, for the salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

6 In which salvation, rejoice greatly; though now, for a little

while, if need be, ye are in hea-
viness through various trials:
7 that the proving of your
faith, which is much more
precious than that of gold
which perisheth, though it be
proved by fire, may be found
to be for praise, and glory, and
honour, at the revelation of
Jesus Christ;

8 whom, though ye have not seen him, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, rejoice ye with joy unspeakable, and full of glory: 9 receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

10 Concerning which salvation, the prophets, who prophesied of the grace now bestowed on you, inquired and searched diligently;

11 searching what, or about what time the Spirit within them signified, which testified beforehand the sufferings for Rom. v. Christ; and the glories that 2 Cor.1.

should follow, to those to whom he hath been revealed:

12 for they ministered not

1 Cor. iv. 9.

and xi. 23

ev. xi. 44 nd xix. 2.

c. iv. 3.

to themselves, but to us, the things which are now declared to you by those who have preached the gospel to you, with the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven: into which things the angels are desirous to look. 13 Wherefore, girding up the loins of your mind, be wakeful, and hope to the end for the grace that will be brought to you, at the revelation of Jesus Christ, as children of obedi

ence:

14 not conforming yourselves to your former lusts, in your ignorance;

15 but, according to the Holy One who hath called you, be ye also holy in all your conversation;

16 for it is written, "Ye shall "be holy, for I am holy."

17 And, if ye call him "Fa"ther," who judgeth, without respect to persons, according

to every one's work, pass ye the time of your sojourning here in fear:

18 knowing, that ye were not redeemed from your vain conversation, derived from your fathers, with corruptible things, as silver and gold; but, with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot;

19 foreordained, indeed, before the foundation of the world; but, manifested at the end of time, for your sakes,

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LAYING aside, therefore, all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

2 as newborn infants, desire the genuine milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation;

3 if ye have" tasted that the Ps. xxxiv. 8. "Lord is gracious:"

4 to whom coming, as to a living stone, disallowed indeed by men, but chosen by God, and precious;

5 ye also, as living stones, are

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c. i. 18.

7 its preciousness, therefore, is to you who believe; but, to those who disbelieve, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the headstone of a corner;

8 and a tripping-stone, and rock of stumbling, to those who stumble by disbelieving the word to which they, also, had been appointed.

9 But, ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation; a people specially purchased, that ye should proclaim the excellencies of him who hath called you, out of darkness, into his marvellous light: 10 who formerly were not his people, but now are a people of God; who had not obtain

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mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

11 Beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

12 having your conversation upright among the Gentiles: that, while they speak against you as evildoers, they may,

in beholding your good works, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man, for the Lord's Rom, xial sake: whether to the king, as being supreme;

14 or to governors, as to those sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, but, for the praise of them that do well :

15 for, so is the will of God, that by well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men :

16 as free, yet not using your freedom for a cloak of evil, but as servants of God:

17 honour all men: love the brotherhood: fear God: honour the king.

18 Ye who are servants, be subject to your masters with all reverence; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward:

19 for, this is thankworthy, if any one endure grief for conscience toward God, suffering wrongfully;

20 for, what praise is it, if, when ye transgress and are smitten, ye bear it patiently? but if, when ye do well and suffer, ye bear it patiently, this is acceptable to God:

21 for, to this ye are called, because Christ also suffered for you; leaving you a pattern, that ye should follow in his steps,

Is. liii. 9.

1 Tim. ii. 9, 10.

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LIKEWISE, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any of them believe not the word, they may, without the word, be gained by the conduct of their wives,

2 while they behold your chaste and respectful conduct : 3 whose womanhood, let not consist in the outward adornment of braiding the hair, and wearing of gold, or putting on of apparel;

4 but rather, in that which is hidden in the heart; in the incorruption of a meek and quiet spirit, which, in the sight of God, is of great price:

5 for so also, in former time, the holy women, who trusted in God, adorned themselves,

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