Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, so that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will freely forgive.
1 Peter 1:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient and to be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Who were chosen and foreknown by God the Father and consecrated (sanctified, made holy) by the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and to be sprinkled with [His] blood: May grace (spiritual blessing) and peace be given you in increasing abundance [that spiritual peace to be realized in and through Christ, freedom from fears, agitating passions, and moral conflicts]. American Standard Version (1901) according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. Common English Bible God the Father chose you because of what he knew beforehand. He chose you through the Holy Spirit’s work of making you holy and because of the faithful obedience and sacrifice of Jesus Christ. May God’s grace and peace be multiplied to you. Catholic Public Domain Version in accord with the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, with the obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied for you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you and peace be multiplied. |
Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, so that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will freely forgive.
They will not build and others live in them; they will not plant and others eat. For my people’s lives will be like the lifetime of a tree. My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.
I will produce descendants from Jacob, and heirs to my mountains from Judah; my chosen ones will possess it, and my servants will dwell there.
King Nebuchadnezzar, To those of every people, nation, and language, who live on the whole earth: May your prosperity increase.
Then King Darius wrote to those of every people, nation, and language who live on the whole earth: ‘May your prosperity abound.
He is to slaughter the bull before the Lord; Aaron’s sons the priests are to present the blood and splatter it on all sides of the altar that is at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Unless those days were cut short, no one would be saved. But those days will be cut short because of the elect.
For false messiahs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
He will send out his angels with a loud trumpet, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
If the Lord had not cut those days short, no one would be saved. But he cut those days short for the sake of the elect, whom he chose.
For false messiahs and false prophets will arise and will perform signs and wonders to lead astray, if possible, the elect.
He will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.
Will not God grant justice to his elect who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay helping them?
Though he was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail him to a cross and kill him.
‘And now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.
Through him we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the Gentiles, ,
To all who are in Rome, loved by God, called as saints. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah #– #how he pleads with God against Israel?
Regarding the gospel, they are enemies for your advantage, but regarding election, they are loved because of the patriarchs,
to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the gospel of God. God’s purpose is that the Gentiles may be an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
The report of your obedience has reached everyone. Therefore I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise about what is good, and yet innocent about what is evil.
but now revealed and made known through the prophetic Scriptures, according to the command of the eternal God to advance the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles #– #
because if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies.
It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us #– #our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption #– #
And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
and every proud thing that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to obey Christ.
For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be his own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and dearly loved, put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience,
But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
This is why I endure all things for the elect: so that they also may obtain salvation, which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.
By faith he instituted the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch the Israelites.
and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.
After he was perfected, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance.
but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb.
He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was revealed in these last times for you.
Since you have purified yourselves by your obedience to the truth, so that you show sincere brotherly love for each other, from a pure heart love one another constantly, ,
But you are a chosen race, ,, a royal priesthood, , a holy nation, , a people for his possession, , so that you may proclaim the praises ,, of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
May grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
The elder: To the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth #– #and not only I, but also all who know the truth #– #