1 Peter 1:3

Bible in Basic English 1965

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Cross References

1 Kings 8:15

And he said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, who himself gave his word to David my father, and with his strong hand has made his word come true, saying,

1 Chronicles 29:20

And David said to all the people, Now give praise to the Lord your God. And all the people gave praise to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with bent heads worshipping the Lord and the king.

2 Chronicles 31:8

And when Hezekiah and the rulers came and saw all the store of goods, they gave praise to the Lord and to his people Israel.

Psalm 41:13

May the Lord God of Israel be praised, through eternal days and for ever. So be it. So be it.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a God full of pity and forgiveness, slow to get angry, great in mercy and wisdom.

Psalm 86:5

You are good, O Lord, and full of forgiveness; your mercy is great to all who make their cry to you.

Exodus 34:6

And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith;

Isaiah 26:19

Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.

Jonah 4:2

And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.

John 1:13

Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

Romans 12:12

Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,

Romans 15:13

Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 4:25

Who was put to death for our evil-doing, and came to life again so that we might have righteousness.

Romans 5:10

For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;

Romans 8:11

But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.

Romans 8:24

For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees?

1 Corinthians 13:13

But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 15:20

But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.

2 Corinthians 1:3

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort;

Galatians 6:16

And on all who are guided by this rule be peace and mercy, and on the Israel of God.

Ephesians 1:17

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

Ephesians 1:3

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:

Ephesians 1:7

In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,

Ephesians 2:4

But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

Ephesians 3:20

Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,

Colossians 1:23

If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Colossians 1:27

To whom God was pleased to give knowledge of the wealth of the glory of this secret among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

1 Thessalonians 1:3

Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

1 Thessalonians 4:13

But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.

2 Thessalonians 2:16

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who had love for us and has given us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

1 Timothy 1:14

And the grace of our Lord was very great, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Titus 2:13

Looking for the glad hope, the revelation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;

Hebrews 3:6

But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.

James 1:18

Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.

1 Peter 1:13

So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

1 Peter 1:21

Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

1 Peter 1:23

Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

1 Peter 2:2

Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

1 Peter 3:15

But give honour to Christ in your hearts as your Lord; and be ready at any time when you are questioned about the hope which is in you, to give an answer in the fear of the Lord and without pride;

1 Peter 3:21

And baptism, of which this is an image, now gives you salvation, not by washing clean the flesh, but by making you free from the sense of sin before God, through the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead;

1 Peter 3:5

And these were the ornaments of the holy women of the past, whose hope was in God, being ruled by their husbands:

1 John 2:29

If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

1 John 3:3

And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.

1 John 3:9

Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

1 John 4:7

My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

1 John 5:18

We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.

1 John 5:4

Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.