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Post by Child of Immanuel on Sept 24, 2008 14:13:40 GMT -5
Of Peter A 1: 1-2: Salutation
1 Peter, an emissary of Yeshua the Messiah, to the chosen refugees of the diaspora to Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the father in the holiness of the spirit, for obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Yeshua the Messiah, may grace and peace abound to you.
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Sept 28, 2008 16:53:09 GMT -5
Of Peter A 1: 3-12: A Living Hope
3 Blessed be God, even the father of our lord Yeshua the Messiah, who according to his great mercy gives us new life into a living hope through the resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah from the dead, 4 into an inheritance imperishable and undefiled and undying, kept in heaven for us, 5 prisoners of God’s power, to be revealed on the last day through trust into a prepared salvation. 6 In which rejoice, now little [is] necessary, grieving in various trials, 7 so that the testing of your trust, more valuable even than gold tested in the fire, may be found as praise and glory and honor in the revelation of Yeshua the Messiah: 8 whom, not having seen him, you love, whom, not yet having beheld him, you trust and rejoice with joy that cannot be spoken and have praised him 9 receiving the goal of [your] trust, the salvation of your souls.*
10 About which salvation the prophets who prophesied about the grace coming to you inquired and sought diligently, 11 searching for what or how the time indicated which was told in advance to them in the spirit by the Messiah, the sufferings for the Messiah and the praise after these things. 12 To them it was revealed for they didn't await them for themselves but for you, the things that are now announced to you through your evangelization [by] the holy spirit sent from heaven, for which things angels long to look into.
*Or ‘lives’
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Oct 3, 2008 13:27:52 GMT -5
Of Peter 1: 13-25: A Call to Holy Living
13 Therefore, making your mind ready and being perfectly sober, hope for the coming of grace to you in the revelation of Yeshua the Messiah. 14 Like obedient children not conforming to your former desires in ignorance 15 but you be holy according to the one who calls you holy in all your way of life, 16 therefore it is written [that], “Be holy, because I [am] holy.”
17 And if you call on the father who judges impartially according to each one’s deeds, you will live in fear for the time of your sojourn, 18 knowing that not by perishable silver or gold you are freed from your worthless return handed down from the fathers 19 but by the priceless blood of the Messiah, the unblemished and spotless lamb, 20 who indeed knew before the beginning of the world and was shown at the end of times to us, 21 those who through him are faithful to God who raised him from the dead and give him glory, so that your trust and hope may be in God.
22 Since your souls have been cleansed by obedience to the truth into un-hypocritical brotherly love, love one another zealously from [clean] hearts 23 being born again not by mortal seed but by the imperishable word of God, who lives and remains. 24 Because
all flesh is like grass and all its glory like a flower in the grass: the grass withers and the flower falls: 25 but the word of the lord remains forever. And this is the word given to you as good news.
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Oct 7, 2008 13:30:33 GMT -5
Of Peter A 2: 1-10: The Living Stone and the Holy Nation
1 Therefore, putting away all evil and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, 2 like newborn babies long for pure spiritual milk, so that it may grow to salvation in you, 3 if you taste that the lord is good. 4 To whom we come as a living stone, indeed rejected by men but precious and chosen by God, 5 and they as living stones build a spiritual house for the holy priesthood to bring spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Yeshua the Messiah. 6 Therefore it says in the scripture,
Look, I put a stone in Zion a precious and chosen cornerstone and he who trusts in it will certainly not be put to shame.
7 Therefore the reward for those who trust is for you, but for those who don’t trust
the stone which the builders rejected, this becomes the cornerstone
8 and
the stone that causes stumbling and the rock that gives occasion for son:
those who stumble at the word disobey what even they set down.
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a nation to be saved, so that you may announce the excellencies of your being called from darkness into his amazing light:
10 they were once not a people and now are God's people, they had not received mercy and now receive mercy.
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Oct 10, 2008 15:49:33 GMT -5
Of Peter A 2: 11-17: Live as Servants of God
11 Beloved, I urge you, as strangers and refugees on the earth, to abstain from fleshly lusts that wage war against the soul: 12 having your manner of life among the gentiles be good, so that, when they slander you as evildoers, they may see among your good works and praise God on the day of visitation.
13 Obey all human authority through the lord, whether a king as ruler, 14 or a governor as through him evildoers are sent to judgment and doers of good to praise: 15 for this is God's will, to silence the doers of good with the ignorance of foolish men, 16 likke free men and not like those who have a covering for evil against freedom but rather as God's slaves. 17 Honor everyone, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Oct 13, 2008 13:40:59 GMT -5
Of Peter A 2: 18-25: The Example of Christ’s Suffering
18 Servants obey masters with all fear, not only good and considerate (masters) but rather also the crooked ones. 19 For this grace, that through God’s conscience if anyone endures pains of suffering wickedly. 20 For what is the credit if you sin and endure being beaten? But if you do good and endure sufferings, this is grace from God. 21 For you were called for this, that even the Messiah suffered for you, you leave behind an example so that you may follow his footsteps,
22 he didn’t do sin nor was deceit found in his mouth,
23 he didn’t slander the slanderers, suffering, he didn’t threaten, and righteously he handed himself over to the judge: 24 he himself carried our sins on his body on the tree, so that dying to sins we might live to righteousness, whose wounds you heal. 25 For you were like wandering sheep, but now you turn back to the shepherd and overseer of your lives.*
*Or 'souls'
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Oct 16, 2008 16:21:09 GMT -5
Of Peter A 3: 1-7: Wives and Husbands
1 Likewise [the] wives, obey your own husbands, so that if any of them obey the word, through returning their wives may win them over without a word, 2 seeing your chaste return in fear. 3 Of them don’t be with braided hair on the outside and wearing gold jewelry or dressed in worldly clothing 4 but let the hidden man of the heart be of a humble and quiet spirit, which is before the precious God. 5 For thus likewise the holy women who hope in God always decorate themselves obeying their husbands, 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him her lord, whose children you are raised up as to do good and to fear nothing fearful.
7 Likewise, men, living with (your wives) according to knowledge as to the weaker womanly vessel, pay them honor as fellow heirs of living grace so that your prayers won't be hindered.
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Oct 21, 2008 17:06:23 GMT -5
Of Peter A 3: 8-22: Suffering for Righteousness’ Sake
8 And the goal all of the same mind, sharing the same feeling, loving one’s fellows, kind, humble, 9 not paying back evil for evil or slander for slander, but rather blessing because by this you will be called so that you may inherit the blessing.
10 For he who wants to love life and see good days let him keep his tongue from evil and his lip from speaking deceit, 11 and let him turn from evil and do good, let him seek peace and run after it: 12 for the lord’s eyes are on the righteous and his ears are towards their prayers, and the lord’s face is towards those who do evil.
13 And who will do evil to you if you are zealots for good? 14 But if you also suffer for righteousness, you are blessed. Don’t be afraid nor terrified of their fear, 15 make the lord Messiah holy in your hearts, always be ready with an answer for all who asks you the reason for the hope that is in you, 16 but with humility and fear, having a good conscience, so that by whom you are slandered your insulters may be shamed to the good return to the Messiah. 17 For it is better to be doers of good, if you desire God’s will, than to suffer as evildoers. 18 For even the Messiah suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, so that he might bring you to God, dead indeed in the flesh but made alive in the spirit: 19 in which he went to preach to the spirits in prison, 20 once when God's patience awaited those who were disobedient, in the days of Noah when the ark was prepared, in which a few souls, that is eight, were saved through water. 21 Which is a type: baptism now saves you, not a removal of dirt from the flesh but rather a matter of good conscience towards God, through the resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah, 22 who is at the right [of] God, having been brought into heaven when angels and authorities and powers subjected themselves to him.
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Oct 25, 2008 17:13:07 GMT -5
Of Peter A 4: 1-11: Good Stewards of God’s Grace
1 Therefore when the Messiah suffers in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because he who suffers in the flesh has stopped sins. 2 So live rest of the time in the flesh no longer with desires of men but with God’s will. 3 For the time passing is enough; the will of the nations brings about people walking in vices, lusts, drunkennesses, carousals, drinking feasts and lawless idolatries. 4 In which when you don’t run to be received into the effusion of wastefulness, blaspheming, 5 you restore the word to him who has it ready to judge the living and the dead. 6 For it is for this that the good news is told to the dead as well, so that they may be judged both according to men living in the flesh and according to God’s spirit.
7 And the end of all things has come. Therefore be watchful and sober in prayers: 8 before everything, have the intention to love one another, for love covers a multitude of sins. 9 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. 10 Each one, just as he received grace, let them serve each other as good stewards of God's varied grace. 11 If anyone speaks, (let it be) as with God's words: if anyone serves, let it be as one whom God supplies out of strength, so that in everything God may be praised through Yeshua the Messiah, to whom is the glory and the might forever and ever, amen.
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Oct 28, 2008 17:00:48 GMT -5
Of Peter A 4: 12-19: Suffering as a Christian
12 Beloved, don’t consider the fire among you that is happening to you as a test strange, 13 but rather consider them in common according to the Messiah’s sufferings, rejoice, so that you may also rejoice and be glad in the revelation of his glory. 14 If you are criticized for the Messiah’s name, you are blessed, because the spirit of glory and of God rests on you. 15 For none of you should suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a busybody: 16 but if as a Christian, he should not be ashamed, but let him praise God for this name. 17 Because it is [the] time when judgment rules from God’s house: and if it is from you first, what will be the end of those who refuse God’s good news?
18 And if the righteous one is barely saved, where will the wicked one and sinner be seen?
19 So that even those who suffer according to God's will must be given their lives* in doing good by the faithful creator.
*Or 'souls'
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Nov 1, 2008 19:20:34 GMT -5
Of Peter A 5: 1-11: Tending the Flock of God
1 I, an elder with the Messiah and a witness of his sufferings, as well as a sharer in the glory that is about to be revealed, urge the elders among you: 2 shepherd God’s flock that is with you, [treating it] not with compulsion but voluntarily according to God, not greedily but willingly, 3 not as those who lord it over the shares, but as examples for the flock: 4 and when the chief shepherd is revealed you will receive the unfading crown of glory.
5 Likewise, young men, obey the elders: and let everyone serve each other with humility, for
God opposes the arrogant, but gives grace to the humble.
6 Therefore humble yourselves under God’s mighty hand, so that in time he may lift you up, 7 throw all your concern on him, for he cares about you.
8 Be sober, keep watch. Your adversary the devil is walking about roaring like a lion, seeking someone to devour: 9 resist him solidly, with trust, knowing the matters of suffering with the brotherhood to be completed in [the] world.
10 And the God of all grace, who called you into his eternal glory in the Messiah [Yeshua], having suffered a little he will restore, strengthen and confirm you and lay your foundations. 11 To him is might forever, amen.
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Nov 2, 2008 22:23:55 GMT -5
Of Peter A 5: 12-14: Final Greetings
12 Through Silvanus the faithful brother to you, as I estimate, through few, I wrote encouraging you and bearing witness that this grace of God's for which you stand is true.
13 The chosen (community) in Babylon and my son Mark greet you. 14 Greet one another with a loving kiss. Peace to all of you who are in the Messiah.
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