1 Peter 2:25 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁵ Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ For you were going astray like [so many] sheep, but now you have come back to the Shepherd and Guardian (the Bishop) of your souls. [Isa. 53:5, 6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Common English Bible

²⁵ Though you were like straying sheep, you have now returned to the shepherd and guardian of your lives.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ For you were like wandering sheep. But now you have been turned back toward the Pastor and the Bishop of your souls.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ For you were as sheep going astray; but you are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.

1 Peter 2:25 Cross References

Psalm 119:176

With them that hate peace I was peaceable: when I spoke to them they fought against me without cause.

Psalm 80:1

Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast cut the Gentiles and planted it.

Isaiah 13:14

2 And owls shall answer one another there, in the houses thereof, and sirens in the temples of pleasure.

Isaiah 40:11

9 Hath the workman cast a graven statue? or hath the goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver?

Isaiah 53:5

GIVE praise, O thou barren, that bearest not: sing forth praise, and make a joyful noise, thou that didst not travail with child: for many are the children of the desolate, more than of her that hath a husband, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 53:6

Enlarge the place of thy tent, and stretch out the skins of thy tabernacles, spare not: lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes.

Jeremiah 23:2

0 Because the land is full of adulterers, because the land hath mourned by reason of cursing, the fields of the desert are dried up: and their course is become evil, and their strength unlike.

Ezekiel 34:6

4 I will feed them in the most fruitful pastures, and their pastures shall be in the high mountains of Israel: there shall they rest on the green grass, and be fed in fat pastures upon the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 37:24

And I will turn thee about, and I will put a bit in thy jaws: and I will bring thee forth, and ail thy army, horses and horsemen all clothed with coats of mail, a great multitude, armed with spears and shields and swords.

Zechariah 13:7

And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall be no light, but cold and frost.

Matthew 18:12

0 For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Matthew 9:36

But go ye rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

Acts 20:28

6 And when he had said these things, kneeling down, he prayed with them all.

Hebrews 13:20

And patience hath a perfect work; that you may be perfect and entire, failing in nothing.

Hebrews 3:1

0 Forty years: for which cause I was offended with this generation, and I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways,

Hebrews 5:2

1 Of whom we have much to say, and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear.

1 Peter 3:20

But the end of all is at hand. Be prudent therefore, and watch in prayers.

1 Peter 5:4

3 The church that is in Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you: and so doth my son Mark.