1 Peter 1:3

New Revised Standard Version

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Cross References

1 Kings 8:15

He said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to my father David, saying,

1 Chronicles 29:20

Then David said to the whole assembly, “Bless the Lord your God.” And all the assembly blessed the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and bowed their heads and prostrated themselves before the Lord and the king.

2 Chronicles 31:8

When Hezekiah and the officials came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and his people Israel.

Psalm 41:13

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

Psalm 86:5

For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call on you.

Exodus 34:6

The Lord passed before him, and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

Isaiah 26:19

Your dead shall live, their corpses shall rise. O dwellers in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a radiant dew, and the earth will give birth to those long dead.

Jonah 4:2

He prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own country? That is why I fled to Tarshish at the beginning; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and ready to relent from punishing.

John 1:13

who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.

Romans 12:12

Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer.

Romans 15:13

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 4:25

who was handed over to death for our trespasses and was raised for our justification.

Romans 5:10

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life.

Romans 8:11

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you.

Romans 8:24

For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen?

1 Corinthians 13:13

And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 15:20

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have died.

2 Corinthians 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation,

Galatians 6:16

As for those who will follow this rule—peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

Ephesians 1:17

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him,

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

Ephesians 1:7

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

Ephesians 2:4

But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us

Ephesians 3:20

Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine,

Colossians 1:23

provided that you continue securely established and steadfast in the faith, without shifting from the hope promised by the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven. I, Paul, became a servant of this gospel.

Colossians 1:27

To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:13

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

2 Thessalonians 2:16

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and through grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,

1 Timothy 1:14

and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

Titus 2:13

while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 3:6

Christ, however, was faithful over God's house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm the confidence and the pride that belong to hope.

James 1:18

In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

1 Peter 1:13

Therefore prepare your minds for action; discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when he is revealed.

1 Peter 1:21

Through him you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are set on God.

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

1 Peter 2:2

Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation—

1 Peter 3:15

but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you;

1 Peter 3:21

And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

1 Peter 3:5

It was in this way long ago that the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves by accepting the authority of their husbands.

1 John 2:29

If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who does right has been born of him.

1 John 3:3

And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.

1 John 3:9

Those who have been born of God do not sin, because God's seed abides in them; they cannot sin, because they have been born of God.

1 John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child.

1 John 5:18

We know that those who are born of God do not sin, but the one who was born of God protects them, and the evil one does not touch them.

1 John 5:4

for whatever is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith.