1 Peter 1:2

God's Word

God the Father knew you long ago and chose you to live holy lives with the Spirit’s help so that you are obedient to Jesus Christ and are sprinkled with his blood. May good will  and peace fill your lives!

Cross References

2 Thessalonians 2:13

We always have to thank God for you, brothers and sisters. You are loved by the Lord and we thank God that in the beginning he chose you to be saved through a life of spiritual devotion and faith in the truth.

1 Peter 1:22

Love each other with a warm love that comes from the heart. After all, you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth. As a result you have a sincere love for each other.

Hebrews 12:24

You have come to Jesus, who brings the new promise  from God, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better message than Abel’s.

Romans 11:2

God has not rejected his people whom he knew long ago. Don’t you know what Elijah says in the Scripture passage when he complains to God about Israel? He says,

2 Peter 1:2

May good will  and peace fill your lives through your knowledge about Jesus, our God and Lord!

Acts 2:23

By using men who don’t acknowledge Moses’ Teachings, you crucified Jesus, who was given over ⌞to death⌟ by a plan that God had determined in advance.

Romans 16:26

but now is publicly known. The everlasting God ordered that what the prophets wrote must be shown to the people of every nation to bring them to the obedience that is associated with faith.

2 Timothy 2:10

For that reason, I endure everything for the sake of those who have been chosen so that they, too, may receive salvation from Christ Jesus with glory that lasts forever.

1 Corinthians 6:11

That’s what some of you were! But you have been washed and made holy, and you have received God’s approval in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Mark 13:27

He will send out his angels, and from every direction under the sky, they will gather those whom God has chosen.

Mark 13:20

If the Lord does not reduce that time, no one will be saved. But those days will be reduced because of those whom God has chosen.

Hebrews 10:22

We have been sprinkled ⌞with his blood⌟ to free us from a guilty conscience, and our bodies have been washed with clean water. So we must continue to come ⌞to him⌟ with a sincere heart and strong faith.

Romans 16:19

Everyone has heard about your obedience and this makes me happy for you. I want you to do what is good and to avoid what is evil.

Romans 8:33

Who will accuse those whom God has chosen? God has approved of them.

Luke 18:7

Won’t God give his chosen people justice when they cry out to him for help day and night? Is he slow to help them?

Matthew 24:24

False messiahs and false prophets will appear. They will work spectacular, miraculous signs and do wonderful things to deceive, if possible, even those whom God has chosen.

Matthew 24:22

If God does not reduce the number of those days, no one will be saved. But those days will be reduced because of those whom God has chosen.

Deuteronomy 7:6

You are a holy people, who belong to the Lord your God. He chose you to be his own special possession out of all the nations on earth.

1 Peter 2:9

However, you are chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, people who belong to God. You were chosen to tell about the excellent qualities of God, who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Hebrews 11:28

Faith led Moses to establish the Passover and spread the blood ⌞on the doorposts⌟ so that the destroying angel would not kill the firstborn sons.

Romans 15:16

to be a servant of Christ Jesus to people who are not Jewish. I serve as a priest by spreading the Good News of God. I do this in order that I might bring the nations to God as an acceptable offering, made holy by the Holy Spirit.

Romans 8:13

If you live by your corrupt nature, you are going to die. But if you use your spiritual nature to put to death the evil activities of the body, you will live.

Romans 1:7

To everyone in Rome whom God loves and has called to be his holy people. Good will  and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ are yours!

Romans 1:5

Through him we have received God’s kindness  and the privilege of being apostles who bring people from every nation to the obedience that is associated with faith. This is for the honor of his name.

Acts 15:18

He is the one who will do these things that have always been known!’

Daniel 4:1

From King Nebuchadnezzar. To the people of every province, nation, and language in the world. I wish you peace and prosperity.

Isaiah 65:22

They will not build homes and have others live there. They will not plant and have others eat from it. My people will live as long as trees, and my chosen ones will enjoy what they’ve done.

Jude 1:2

May mercy, peace, and love fill your lives!

Hebrews 5:9

After he had finished his work, he became the source of eternal salvation for everyone who obeys him.

Colossians 3:12

As holy people whom God has chosen and loved, be sympathetic, kind, humble, gentle, and patient.

2 Corinthians 10:5

and all their intellectual arrogance that oppose the knowledge of God. We take every thought captive so that it is obedient to Christ.

Romans 11:28

The Good News made the Jewish people enemies because of you. But by God’s choice they are loved because of their ancestors.

Acts 20:32

“I am now entrusting you to God and to his message that tells how kind he is. That message can help you grow and can give you the inheritance that is shared by all of God’s holy people.

Titus 1:1

From Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ. I was sent to lead God’s chosen people to faith and to the knowledge of the truth that leads to a godly life.

1 Corinthians 1:30

You are partners with Christ Jesus because of God. Jesus has become our wisdom sent from God, our approval, our holiness, and our ransom from sin.

Mark 13:22

False messiahs and false prophets will appear. They will work miraculous signs and do wonderful things to deceive, if possible, those whom God has chosen.

Matthew 24:31

He will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and from every direction under the sky, they will gather those whom God has chosen.

Isaiah 55:7

Let wicked people abandon their ways. Let evil people abandon their thoughts. Let them return to the Lord, and he will show compassion to them. Let them return to our God, because he will freely forgive them.

2 John 1:13

The children of your chosen sister greet you.

2 John 1:1

From the church leader. To the chosen lady and her children, whom I love because we share the truth. I’m not the only one who loves you. Everyone who knows the truth also loves you.

Daniel 6:25

Then King Darius wrote to the people of every province, nation, and language all over the world: I wish you peace and prosperity.

Isaiah 65:9

I will bring ⌞with me⌟ Jacob’s descendant, one who will inherit my mountains from Judah. My chosen ones will inherit them. My servants will live there.

Leviticus 1:5

Then slaughter the bull in the Lord’s presence. Aaron’s sons, the priests, will offer the blood. They will throw it against all sides of the altar that is at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

1 Peter 1:14

Because you are children who obey God, don’t live the kind of lives you once lived. Once you lived to satisfy your desires because you didn’t know any better.

1 Peter 1:19

Rather, the payment that freed you was the precious blood of Christ, the lamb with no defects or imperfections.

1 Peter 1:20

He is the lamb who was known long ago before the world existed, but for your good he became publicly known in the last period of time.