1 Peter 1:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

From Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ. To God's people who are scattered like foreigners in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.

Cross References

Esther 3:8

Then Haman went to the king and said: Your Majesty, there are some people who live all over your kingdom and won't have a thing to do with anyone else. They have customs that are different from everyone else's, and they refuse to obey your laws. We would be better off to get rid of them!

Psalm 44:11

You let us be slaughtered like sheep, and you scattered us among the nations.

Ezekiel 6:8

I will let some of the people live through this punishment, but I will scatter them among the nations,

Leviticus 26:33

After I destroy your towns and ruin your land with war, I'll scatter you among the nations.

Matthew 10:2

The first of the twelve apostles was Simon, better known as Peter. His brother Andrew was an apostle, and so were James and John, the two sons of Zebedee.

Matthew 24:22

If God doesn't make the time shorter, no one will be left alive. But because of God's chosen ones, he will make the time shorter.

Matthew 4:18

While Jesus was walking along the shore of Lake Galilee, he saw two brothers. One was Simon, also known as Peter, and the other was Andrew. They were fishermen, and they were casting their net into the lake.

Luke 18:7

Won't God protect his chosen ones who pray to him day and night? Won't he be concerned for them?

John 11:52

Yet Jesus would not die just for the Jewish nation. He would die to bring together all God's scattered people.

John 7:35

The Jewish leaders asked each other, “Where can he go to keep us from finding him? Is he going to some foreign country where our people live? Is he going there to teach the Greeks?

Acts 18:2

where he met Aquila, a Jewish man from Pontus. Not long before this, Aquila had come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Emperor Claudius had ordered the Jewish people to leave Rome. Paul went to see Aquila and Priscilla

Acts 18:23

After staying there for a while, he left and visited several places in Galatia and Phrygia. He helped the followers there to become stronger in their faith.

Acts 19:10

for two years, until every Jew and Gentile in Asia had heard the Lord's message.

Acts 6:9

But some Jews from Cyrene and Alexandria were members of a group who called themselves “Free Men”. They started arguing with Stephen. Some others from Cilicia and Asia also argued with him.

Acts 8:4

The Lord's followers who had been scattered went from place to place, telling the good news.

1 Corinthians 16:19

Greetings from the churches in Asia. Aquila and Priscilla, together with the church that meets in their house, send greetings in the name of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 1:8

My friends, I want you to know what a hard time we had in Asia. Our sufferings were so horrible and so unbearable that death seemed certain.

Ephesians 2:12

At that time you did not know about Christ. You were foreigners to the people of Israel, and you had no part in the promises that God had made to them. You were living in this world without hope and without God,

Ephesians 2:19

You Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens with everyone else who belongs to the family of God.

Deuteronomy 28:64

Those of you who survive will be scattered to every nation on earth, and you will have to worship stone and wood idols that never helped you or your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 32:26

“I wanted to scatter you, so no one would remember that you had ever lived.

Deuteronomy 4:27

Only a few of you will survive, and the LORD will force you to leave the land and will scatter you among the nations.

2 Timothy 1:15

You know that everyone in Asia has turned against me, especially Phygelus and Hermogenes.

Hebrews 11:13

Every one of those people died. But they still had faith, even though they had not received what they had been promised. They were glad just to see these things from far away, and they agreed that they were only strangers and foreigners on this earth.

James 1:1

From James, a servant of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ. Greetings to the twelve tribes scattered all over the world.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, you are foreigners and strangers on this earth. So I beg you not to surrender to those desires that fight against you.

2 Peter 1:1

From Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ. To everyone who shares with us in the privilege of believing that our God and Saviour Jesus Christ will do what is just and fair.

Revelation 1:11

The voice said, “Write in a book what you see. Then send it to the seven churches in Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”