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1 Peter 1:23
being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.
being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.
1 PETER 1:23 me,nontoj After me,nontoj the Textus Receptus, in company with K L P most minuscules vg syrp eth, adds eivj to.n aivw/na. The phrase, which is an intrusion from ver....
Verse 23. _BEING BORN AGAIN_] For being born of Abraham's seed will not avail to the entering of the kingdom of heaven. _NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED_] By no human generation, or earthly means; _but of in...
BEING BORN AGAIN - See the notes at John 3:3. NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED - “Not by virtue of any descent from human parents” - Doddridge. The result of such a birth, or of being begotten in this way - fo...
II. THE BLESSINGS AND PRIVILEGES OF ALL BELIEVERS CHAPTER 1:22-2:10 _ 1. The new birth (1 Peter 1:22)_ 2. Spiritual growth (1 Peter 2:1) 3. The privileges of believers as the holy and royal priesth...
1 Peter 1:22 to 1 Peter 2:10. The Christians, who were formerly pagans, are created a new race in Christ Jesus, and consecrated as a special priesthood of service to the whole world. Their life must b...
BEING. Having been. BORN. Same as "begotten", 1 Peter 1:3. SEED. Greek. _spora._ Only here. WORD. App-121. WHICH LIVETH, &C. = living (App-170.) and abiding (see p. 1511). FOREVER. All the texts...
_being born again_ Better, HAVING BEEN BEGOTTEN AGAIN, the verb being the same as that in 1 Peter 1:3. The "corruptible seed" is that which is the cause of man's natural birth, and the preposition whi...
ἈΝΑΓΕΓΕΝΝΗΜΈΝΟΙ; cf. 1 Peter 1:3, the only other place where the word occurs. The verses which follow state the obligation and the source of Christian love. They have been brought into a new state of...
INTRODUCTORY EXHORTATION FOUNDED UPON THE BENEDICTION 1 Peter 1:13 to 1 Peter 2:10 13–25. 13 The new life of hope, faith and privilege to which you have been begotten involves corresponding responsi...
ΆΝΑΓΕΓΕΝΝΗΜΈΝΟΙ _perf. pass._ pan. от ΑΝΑΓΕΝΝΆΩ (G313) возрождать (_см._ 1 Peter 1:3). ΣΠΟΡΆ (G4701) семя. Человеческое семя, которое порождает тленную человеческую жизнь, противопоставляется божеств...
SEEING YE HAVE PURIFIED YOUR SOULS, &C.— _When through the Spirit ye have purged your hearts by obeying the truth, so that you are become capable of fraternal affection without disguise, See that you...
_5. BROTHERLY LOVE 1:22-25_ 1 Peter 1:22-23 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently: having be...
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. Christian brotherhood flows from new birth of an imperishable seed, God's abi...
VERSE 23--BEING BORN AGAIN, NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED. This may, and does, no doubt, refer the parties addressed back to their conversion. This is compared to a birth. Such a result is produced from an...
1 Note the contrast between Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, and Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus. Peter proceeds on the ground of His present rejection on earth, Paul on His exaltation in heaven. 1...
GREETING IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY TRINITY. ENCOURAGEMENT TO HOPE IN FAITH AND OBEDIENCE 1, 2. To the strangers scattered throughout.. elect] RV 'to the elect who are sojourners of the Dispersion in,' e...
BEING BORN AGAIN] RV 'having been begotten again': cp. 1 Peter 1:3. NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED, BUT OF INCORRUPTIBLE] cp. John 1:12; 1 John 3:9. BY THE WORD] We need not discuss whether 'the word' means...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ INTRODUCTION THE WRITER Peter wrote this letter. He was one of the 12 *apostles. His name was Simon, but Jesus changed it to Peter (John 1:42). ‘Pe...
The ‘word of the *Lord’ (God) can refer to the Bible. It also means the good news that God saves people from *sin through Jesus Christ. When people hear or read this good news, it is like a seed that...
BEING BORN AGAIN. — Rather, _Having been begotten again._ It is not part of the exhortation, as though they had still to be thus begotten, but assigns the moral grounds for the exhortation. It is logi...
(13-25) GENERAL APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING. — This salvation being so magnificent, the Asiatic Hebrews must cling to it tenaciously, in holiness, in reverence caused by consideration of the cost of...
CHAPTER 5 CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD: ITS CHARACTER AND DUTIES 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 2:1 THAT holy lives have been lived in solitude none would venture to dispute, and that devout Christians have found s...
ἀναγεγεννημένοι. So St. John ἀγαπῶμεν ἀλλήλους ὅτι … πᾶς ὁ ἀγαπῶν ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ γεγέννηται; _cf._ Ephesians 4:17; Ephesians 5:2. ἐκ σπορᾶς ἀφθάρτου, _i.e._, of God regarded as Father and perhaps also as...
The combination of purification of souls with love of the brotherhood suggests that the temptations to relapses were due to former intimacies and relationships which were not overcome by the spiritual...
REDEEMED AND PURIFIED 1 Peter 1:13 The appeal for a holy life is enforced by considering the great cost of our redemption and the great hope which is opened before us. Ours must be the girded loins,...
Like the letter of James, the purpose of this was to establish those who were passing through a period of suffering and testing. In his introduction the apostle used the name Jesus had given him, "Pet...
PURIFIED IN OBEYING THE TRUTH Their souls had been cleansed from sin's defilement, at the very moment they obeyed the truth. The truth is the word of God (John 17:17), which was delivered by the Holy...
Thus this new birth, common to you all, should form between you an union much more stable and solid than that formed in you by the ties of blood. (Bible de Vence)...
And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: (18) Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed w...
The epistles of Peter are addressed to the elect Jews of his day, believing of course on the Lord Jesus, and scattered throughout a considerable portion of Asia Minor. The apostle takes particular car...
23_Being born again _Here is another reason for an exhortation, — that since they were new men and born again of God, it behoved them to form a life worthy of God and of their spiritual regeneration....
The First Epistle of Peter is addressed to believers among the dispersed of Israel found in those provinces of Asia Minor Which are named in the first Verse; the Second Epistle declares itself to be a...
BEING BORN AGAIN,.... As they were of God, according to his abundant mercy, by the resurrection of Christ, to a lively hope of a glorious inheritance; as in 1 Peter 1:3 and therefore seeing they were...
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. Ver. 23. _Born again_] A man shall never have occasion to curse the day of his...
_Seeing you have purified your souls_ By applying to this fountain which God has opened for sin and for uncleanness, and by believing and _obeying the truth_, which God hath appointed to be the grand...
NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED; not as at first, of mortal parents, born to die. THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH LIVETH AND ABIDETH FOR EVER; and therefore communicates and nourishes life which will be eternal. Trut...
Peter writes with apostolic authority and though it is directly to the dispersed Jewish Christians (strangers both because Jews among Gentiles, and because Christians separated from Jewish relatives),...
_ 1 Peter 1:23 ‘for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and abiding word of God.'_ ‘FOR' -Which connects this verse with the previous...
17-25 Holy confidence in God as a Father, and awful fear of him as a Judge, agree together; and to regard God always as a Judge, makes him dear to us as a Father. If believers do evil, God will visit...
BEING BORN AGAIN: this may refer either: 1. To the general exhortation to holiness, 1 PETER 1:14,15, and then the argument runs thus: Ye are in your regeneration become the children of God, and there...
1 Peter 1:23 again G313 (G5746) not G3756 of G1537 corruptible G5349 seed G4701 but G235 incorruptible G862 through...
‘Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently, having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed,...
BEING BEGOTTEN AGAIN OF THE LIVING AND ETERNAL WORD OF GOD HAS PURIFIED THEIR SOULS IN OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH, AND THIS MUST WORK ITSELF OUT IN LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER (1 PETER 1:22). He now outlines wha...
1 Peter 1:23. BEING BORN AGAIN, or rather, HAVING BEEN BEGOTTEN AGAIN. On this see also 1 Peter 1:3. The tense denotes a subsisting state due to an act in the past, and, therefore, here a new life in...
The exhortation to brotherly love, which is next introduced, is not without a living connection with the preceding. The circumspect walk which has been enjoined is a walk such as befits those who are...
HAVING BEEN BEGOTTEN AGAIN (αναγεγεννημενο). Perfect passive participle of αναγενναω, which see in verse 1 Peter 1:2.NOT OF CORRUPTIBLE SEED (ουκ εκ σπορας φθαρτης). Ablative with εκ as the source...
1 Peter 1:23 The New Birth. I. Man's inner and nobler life is not like his outer life, a life carried on in many of its most important functions unknown to himself. That lower life has its youth and...
1 Peter 1:17. _And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:_ Not in unbelieving fear, but in that...
1 Peter 1:13. _Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;_ This is Peter's practical appli...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,_ It must have been very pleasant to his heart to write those words, not «Peter, who denied his Master,» not Peter, «full of imperfections and infirmit...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through...
1 Peter 1:1. _Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ._ These are his credentials from him who is Prince of the kings of the earth. _To the strangers scattered_ abroad, of whose tragic dispersion we have spo...
FOR THROUGH. "It is through God's _truth_ revealed in the Good News about the Kingdom (Matthew 13:19 and note) which is the seed that grew up in your hearts (compare Galatians 3:1-2), that you have be...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:23 LIVING AND ABIDING WORD OF GOD. All written Scripture (see v. 1 Peter 1:25), but especially the gospel....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 1:17. THE FATHER.—Better, “a Father.” God apprehended as Father through our apprehension of the Sonship of Christ. _Plumptre_ reminds us that “the sequel shows...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 1:1 PETER. It is the Greek form of the name, which the Lord Jesus himself had given to the great apostle; first, by anticipation, in the spirit of prophecy (John 1:42); and again...
Tonight let's turn to First Peter chapter one. Of the many disciples that were following Jesus, He chose twelve to be apostles. One of the twelve that was chosen as an apostle was Simon Peter. Simon P...
1 Corinthians 15:53; 1 Corinthians 15:54; 1 John 3:9; 1 John 5:18;...
Being born again [α ν α γ ε γ ε ν ν η μ ε ν ο ι]. Rev., having been begotten again. Compare James 1:18. Of [ε κ] seed - by [δ ι α] the word. Note the difference in the prepositions; the former denoti...
THE BOOK OF BOOKS 1 Peter 1:10 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is said on one occasion, when Sir Walter Scott was sick, he called his son requesting him to bring him THE book. His son said, "Your library is...
Which liveth — Is full of divine virtue. And abideth the same for ever....