1 Peter 1:1

Tree of Life Version

Peter, an emissary of Messiah Yeshua, To the sojourners of the Diaspora in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia—chosen

Cross References

Esther 3:8

Haman then said to King Ahasuerus: “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom whose laws differ from those of every other people and who do not obey the king’s laws. It is not in the king’s interest to tolerate them.

Psalm 44:11

You make us retreat before the enemy. Those who hate us have plundered us.

Ezekiel 6:8

“Yet I will leave a remnant, some that escape the sword among the nations, when you have been scattered through the countries.

Leviticus 26:33

I will scatter you among the nations and I will draw out the sword after you. So your land will become a desolation and your cities will become a waste.

Matthew 10:2

Now these are the names of the twelve emissaries: first, Simon, called Peter, and his brother Andrew; Jacob the son of Zebedee and John his brother;

Matthew 24:22

And unless those days were cut short, no one would be delivered. But for the sake of the chosen, those days will be cut short.

Matthew 4:18

Now as Yeshua was walking by the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon who was called Peter and Andrew his brother. They were casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

Luke 18:7

Won’t God do justice for His chosen ones, who cry out to Him day and night? Will He be slow to help them?

John 11:52

And not for the nation only, but also so that He might gather together into one the scattered children of God.

John 7:35

The Judean leaders then said among themselves, “Where is this person about to go that we shall not find Him? He’s not going to the Diaspora to teach the Greeks, is He?

Acts 18:2

There he found a Jewish man named Aquila—a native of Pontus having recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all Jewish people to leave Rome. Paul went to see them;

Acts 18:23

After spending some time there, he departed and went one place after another throughout the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

Acts 19:10

This continued for two years, so that all the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord—Jewish as well as Greek people.

Acts 6:9

But some men from what was called the Synagogue of the Freedmen—both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as some from Cilicia and Asia—stood up and began arguing with Stephen.

Acts 8:4

Now those who had been scattered went around proclaiming the Word.

1 Corinthians 16:19

Messiah’s communities in Asia greet you. Aquila and Prisca greet you warmly in the Lord, with the community that meets in their house.

2 Corinthians 1:8

For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of our trouble that happened in Asia. We were under great pressure—so far beyond our strength that we despaired even of living.

Galatians 1:2

and all the brothers with me. To Messiah’s communities of Galatia:

Ephesians 2:12

At that time you were separate from Messiah, excluded from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Ephesians 2:19

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household.

Deuteronomy 28:64

“Adonai will scatter you among all peoples from the one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods—wood and stone—that you and your fathers have not known.

Deuteronomy 32:26

I would have said, ‘I will hack them to pieces, make the memory of them cease from mankind,’

Deuteronomy 4:27

Adonai will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where Adonai will drive you.

2 Timothy 1:15

You are aware that everyone in Asia has turned away from me—including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

Hebrews 11:13

These all died in faith without receiving the things promised—but they saw them and welcomed them from afar, and they confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

James 1:1

Jacob, a slave of God and of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, To the twelve tribes in the Diaspora: Shalom!

1 Peter 2:11

Loved ones, I urge you as strangers and sojourners to keep away from the fleshly cravings that war against the soul.

2 Peter 1:1

Simon Peter, a slave and emissary of Messiah Yeshua, To those who have received a faith equal to ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior, Messiah Yeshua:

Revelation 1:11

saying, “Write what you see in a scroll, and send it to Messiah’s seven communities—to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”