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1 Peter 1:4
to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you,
to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you,
Verse 1 Peter 1:4. _TO AN INHERITANCE_] Called an _inheritance_ because it belongs to the _children_ of God. Eternal life cannot be a gift to any but _these_; for, even in heaven, the _lot_ is dealt o...
TO AN INHERITANCE - Through the resurrection of the Lord Jesus we now cherish the hope of that future inheritance in heaven. On the word inheritance, see the Acts 20:32 note; Ephesians 1:11, Ephesians...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE SUFFERING OF BELIEVERS AND EXHORTATIONS TO HOLY LIVING CHAPTER 1:1-21 _ 1. The introduction and doxology (1 Peter 1:1)_ 2. Suffering and the coming glory (1 Peter...
The section contains a deep and rich thanksgiving to God for the certainty of an eternal fellowship with Christ. This no sufferings can mar, nor death itself break. He is the unseen Friend, and since...
TO. App-104. INCORRUPTIBLE. See Romans 1:23. UNDEFILED. See Hebrews 7:26. THAT FADETH, &C. = unfading. Greek. _amarantos._ Only here. Compare 1 Peter 5:4. HEAVEN. the heavens. See
_to an inheritance incorruptible_ The clause is co-ordinate with the preceding and depends upon the word "begotten." The idea of the "inheritance" is again essentially Pauline (Acts 20:32; Galatians 3...
1 Peter 1:3-13. THE HIGH PRIVILEGES AND DESTINY OF THE CHRISTIAN _Benediction_ 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for by raising Him from the dead He has begotten us, His othe...
ΕἸΣ ΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΊΑΝ. The goal to which our hope points forward is the spiritual Canaan, “the lot of our inheritance.” Unlike the earthly Canaan it can never be ravaged by hostile marauders (ἄφθαρτον) or p...
ΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΙΆ (G2817) наследство. Это слово может обозначать уже полученную собственность, а также ожидаемое наследство. Здесь верующий уже обладает наследством, не на земле, но на небе, это другое назва...
DISCOURSE: 2380 REGENERATION CONSIDERED 1 Peter 1:3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resu...
TO AN INHERITANCE— St. Peter had spoken of the _hope of life,_ 1 Peter 1:3. He now explains what he meant by that_life;_ even the greatest felicity that canbe enjoyed, which he compares to an inherita...
II. THE GREAT SALVATION 1 PETER 1:3-12 _1. Thanksgiving For it 1:3-5_ 1 Peter 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a livin...
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, TO AN INHERITANCE - the object of "hope" (1 Peter 1:3); therefore not a dead, but a 'living' ho...
VERSE 4 TO AN INHERITANCE INCORRUPTIBLE AND UNDEFILED. Here the apostle describes that for which we hope, and he adds to the same the fact that the elect are heirs. The word "inheritance" conveys the...
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...
INHERITANCE] The land of promise (Hebrews 11:9) was the inheritance of Israel. During all their wanderings this was reserved for them, but they were taught in many ways that it was a type of a better...
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...
An *inheritance is what becomes yours by law after the death of the present owner. It is usually land or property. In the *Old Testament, the *inheritance often refers to the country of Canaan. God ga...
(3-12) PANEGYRIC OF THE GOSPEL FROM A HEBREW POINT OF VIEW. — The Apostle thanks God for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. That fact is a regeneration of us, and a pledge of future glory, in view of w...
TO AN INHERITANCE. — This is structurally parallel to and explanatory of, the clause “into a living hope” We are, as the saying is, born to an estate. This notion of an “inheritance,” or property, tha...
CHAPTER 2 THE HEAVENLY INHERITANCE 1 Peter 1:3 "OUT of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh," words true of all this letter, but of no part more true than of the thanksgiving with which it...
_Benediction of the Name_. The mention of God is followed by the Benediction of the Name as Jewish piety prescribed; the formula _the Holy One, blessed be He_, being amplified by the Christian appreci...
Blessed be God whom we have come to know as the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! For He has granted to us the crowning manifestation of His great mercy. He has raised Jesus Christ from the dea...
εἰς κληρ … ἀμάραντον, as God's sons in virtue of their regeneration they are God's heirs (Galatians 4:7) and have an heavenly inheritance. The accumulated adjectives recall various images employed to...
OUR IMPERISHABLE INHERITANCE 1 Peter 1:1 _ Scattered strangers_! The designation is true of us all. Note the reference to the Trinity involved in the opening sentence. Our inheritance is prepared and...
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...
PRAISE GOD! The word "blessed," which is used in 1 Peter 1:3, is not the word translated blessed in the beatitudes, which describes an inner happiness of the spiritual man. Instead, Thayer tells us it...
_Reserved in heaven for you. Literally, in you; that is, it is also in you by reason of that lively faith and hope, which is in you, of enjoying Christ. (Witham)_...
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, (4) To an inh...
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...
4_To an inheritance _(8) The three words which follow are intended to amplify God’s grace; for Peter (as I have before said) had this object in view, to impress our minds thoroughly as to its excellen...
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...
TO AN INHERITANCE INCORRUPTIBLE,.... This is a further explanation of the "lively hope", or hope laid up in heaven, which regenerate ones are begotten to: it is an "inheritance"; a large estate, and r...
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Ver. 4. _Undefiled, and that fadeth not_] The two Greek words here used are also Latin; Amiantus...
1 Pet. 1:4. "To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you." This is probably here mentioned because those that the Apostle wrote this epistle to...
_Blessed be the God and Father_, or, _God even the Father, of our Lord Jesus Christ_ His only-begotten and beloved Son; _who, according to his abundant mercy_ His compassion for us in our state of ign...
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),...
FOR YOU: Or, for us...
1-9 This epistle is addressed to believers in general, who are strangers in every city or country where they live, and are scattered through the nations. These are to ascribe their salvation to the e...
TO AN INHERITANCE; so eternal life is called, EPHESIANS 1:18, and elsewhere, as being given not as wages to hirelings, but as an inheritance to children born of God, and adopted to him. INCORRUPTIBLE;...
Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments The Father of immortality sent the immortal Son and Word into the world, who came to man in order to wash him with water and the Spirit; and He, begetti...
1 Peter 1:4 to G1519 inheritance G2817 incorruptible G862 and G2532 undefiled G283 and G2532 away G263 reserved G5083 ...
‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has begotten us again to a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, unto an inheritance...
THE GREAT PRIVILEGE AND BLESSING THAT IS THEIRS AS GOD'S ELECT WHICH EVEN ANGELS DESIRE TO LOOK INTO (1 PETER 1:3). The result of God's foreknowing of us, and of the sanctifying work of the Spirit is...
Peter lifts his readers' eyes at once to the future. He speaks first of their hope, their inheritance, their final salvation, before he alludes to the burdens and fears of the present. There was that...
1 Peter 1:4. UNTO AN INHERITANCE. Some connect this closely with the _hope,_ as a definition of that to which it points a living hope looking to the inheritance. Most connect it with the _begat,_ the...
UNTO AN INHERITANCE (εις κληρονομιαν). Old word (from κληρονομος, heir) for the property received by the heir (Matthew 21:38), here a picture of the blessedness in store for us pilgrims (Galatians...
1 Peter 1:3 The Lively Hope. I. Whence does it spring? Hope is popularly defined to be the expectation of future good; but, to render the definition complete, the good should be an object which the m...
1 Peter 1:3 The Heavenly Inheritance. I. The greatness of God's mercy is to be seen in the great number of the saved. II. The greatness of God's mercy is to be seen in the great change which takes...
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, 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, 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,_ 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._ 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...
WE LOOK FORWARD. Our living hope is not merely of eternal existence, but we become sons and daughters of God, and will share in everything God keeps for his people! IN HEAVEN. "This is better than any...
_Blessed be the God and Father._ MAN BLESSING GOD I. Man blesseth God three ways. 1. In his heart, when, refreshed with God’s favour and inflamed with the joys of His presence, he doth lift up his...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:4 The “hope” of v. 1 Peter 1:3 is now described as an INHERITANCE. This word often describes the Promised Land and Israel’s place in it ...
1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:3 Called to Salvation as Exiles. Believers must praise God for his promised salvation and live out that salvation daily. ⇐
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 1:3. BLESSED BE.—A characteristic Jewish recognition of God’s mercy. Compare with 2 Corinthians 1:3; Ephesians 1:3. ABUNDANT.—πολὺ, much. BEGOTTEN US.—The choic...
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 15:52; 1 Corinthians 9:25; 1 Peter 3:9; 1 Peter 5:4;...
An inheritance [κ λ η ρ ο ν ο μ ι α ν]. A Pauline word, from klhrov, a lot, and nemomai, to distribute among themselves. Hence an inheritance is originally a portion which one receives by lot in a gen...
JOY UNSPEAKABLE AND FULL OF GLORY 1 Peter 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As Peter opens his First Epistle he speaks of the strangers scattered throughout certain countries, then he goes on to tell us some...
To an inheritance — For if we are sons, then heirs. Incorruptible — Not like earthly treasures. Undefiled — Pure and holy, incapable of being itself defiled, or of being enjoyed by any polluted soul....