1 PETER 2:5 eivj The Textus Receptus, along with the later uncials (K L P) and most minuscules, omits eivj, probably because its presence seemed to imply that the Christians were not already priests...
Verse 1 Peter 2:5. _YE ALSO, AS LIVELY STONES_] λιθοι ζωντες. _Living_ _stones_; each being instinct with the principle of life, which proceeds from him who is the foundation, called above λιθον ζωντα...
YE ALSO, AS LIVELY STONES - Greek, “living stones.” The word should have been so rendered. The word lively with us now has a different meaning from living, and denotes “active, quick, sprightly.” The...
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...
LIVELY. living. App-170. SPIRITUAL. See 1 Corinthians 12:1. PRIESTHOOD. Greek. _hierateuma._ Only here and 1 Peter 2:9. OFFER UP. Greek. _anaphero._ See Hebrews 7:27. a
_ye also, as lively stones_ Better, AS LIVING STONES, there being no reason for a variation in the English, to which there is nothing corresponding in the Greek. The repetition of the same participle...
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...
ΟἾΚΟΣ ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙΚῸΣ, _a spiritual house_ as opposed to a “house made with hands” like the Jewish temple, in which God could never really dwell, cf. Acts 7:48. For the same idea that the Christian societ...
ΑΎΤΟΪ ώς ΛΊΘΟΙ (G846; G5613) вы сами также подобны живым камням (Kelly; Hort). ΖΏΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΖΆΩ (G2198) жить, ΟΊΚΟΔΟΜΕΪ́ΣΘΕ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΟΊΚΟΔΟΜΈΩ (G3618) строить,...
DISCOURSE: 2392 THE TEMPLE A TYPE 1 Peter 2:4. _To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God and precious, ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual h...
TO WHOM COMING, AS UNTO A LIVING STONE, &C.— By _coming unto Christ_ is meant the joining oneself to him as a part of this spiritual building, or embracing his religion with the heart unto righteousne...
_8. THE LIVING STONE AND SPIRITUAL HOUSE 2:3-10_ 1 Peter 2:3-4 if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious: unto whom coming, a living stone rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious. _Ex...
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. YE ALSO, AS LIVELY STONES - partaking of the name...
VERSE 5. YE ALSO, AS LIVELY STONES. The Revised Version, Vulgate, Syriac, Macknight and Rotherham have it "living stones." Being born again, the Christian possesses the hope of eternal life. They are...
24 Isa_40:6-8. 4 Our Lord, speaking to the chief priests and elders, told them that the kingdom of God would be taken from them and given to a nation bringing forth its fruits, in proof of which He a...
Peter now says that Christians are like ‘stones that are living’. Jesus makes people alive in their spirit. God lives in Christians. He does not live in a physical building (1 Corinthians 6:19). When...
Peter refers back to the *Old Testament. King Solomon built a temple in the city of Jerusalem about 950 years before the birth of Jesus (BC) (1 Kings 6-8). The temple was a special building where the...
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 V1 Therefore stop all evil behaviour. Do not cheat people. Do not pretend to be better than you are. Do not be jealous. Stop saying bad th...
YE ALSO, AS LIVELY STONES, ARE BUILT UP. — This is true enough: they _were_ in process of building up; but it suits the hortatory character of the whole Epistle better to take it (the one is as gramma...
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...
CHAPTER 6 THE PRIESTHOOD OF BELIEVERS 1 Peter 2:4 LEAVING the exhortation to individual duties, the Apostle turns now to describe the Christian society in relation to its Divine Founder, and tells b...
Passages of scripture proving that Christ is called stone are first utilised, then quoted, and finally expounded. The transition from _milk_ to the _stone_ may be explained by the prophecy _the hills...
Fulfilment of the saying, Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it (John 2:19). Christians live to God through Jesus Christ (Romans 6:11). For this development of the figure of building,...
Continuation of practical admonition with appeal to additional ground-principles illustrating the thesis of 1 Peter 1:10....
BUILDING ON THE PRECIOUS CORNER-STONE 1 Peter 2:1 It is easy to lay aside malice, guile and evil speaking, when we are constantly feeding on the unadulterated milk of spiritual truth. If you have ta...
In order to obey the injunctions, those to whom Peter writes are urged to put away all such things as are contrary to the spirit of love. In order to do this they will long for the sustenance of the W...
A SPIRITUAL TEMPLE OF "LIVING STONES" The apostle portrays the church as God's spiritual temple (1 Corinthians 3:9-17). Its members are living stones because they are part of the body of the living Lo...
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, (5) an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. (5) Continuing, he compares us now to priests,...
You also....a holy [2] priesthood; and, as he saith again, (ver. 9.) a royal priesthood. 1. Because they had ministers of God, who were truly and properly priests, of whom Christ is the chief. 2. Ever...
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, (2) As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: (3) If so be...
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...
_PETER AND THE CHURCH_ ‘To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthoo...
_LIVING STONES_ ‘Ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.’ 1 Peter 2:5 (R.V.) Th...
5._Ye also, as lively _or _living stones, are built up _The verb may be in the imperative as well as in the indicative mood, for the termination in Greek is ambiguous. But in whatever way it is taken,...
Thus cleansed therefore and born of the word, they were to put off all fraud, hypocrisy, envy, slander; and, as new-born babes, to seek for this milk of the understanding, in order to grow thereby (fo...
YE ALSO, AS LIVELY STONES,.... Saints likewise are compared to stones; they lie in the same quarry, and are the same by nature as the rest of mankind, till dug out and separated from thence by the pow...
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. Ver. 5. _Ye also as lively stones_] God's house is...
_Ye also_ Believing in him with a loving and obedient faith, _as lively_ Greek, ζωντες, _living, stones_ Quickened and made alive to God by spiritual life derived from him, _are built up_ Upon him, an...
LIVELY; living. A SPIRITUAL HOUSE; the church of God, which is a spiritual temple consisting of living stones, built upon Jesus Christ, the living corner-stone. 1 Corinthians 3:16; EPHESIANS 2:20-22....
YE ALSO, AS LIVELY STONES, ARE BUILT UP A SPIRITUAL HOUSE, AN HOLY PRIESTHOOD, TO OFFER UP SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES, ACCEPTABLE TO GOD BY JESUS CHRIST....
Lively stones built up on Christ:...
Ch.2: 1 Timothy 6 Since the Word of God is the solid foundation of all, eternal blessing for us, it surely follows that we should gladly lay aside all that is contrary to It. Indeed, these evils liste...
ARE BUILT UP: Or, be ye built...
_ 1 Peter 2:5 ‘you also, as living stones, are being built up as. spiritual house for. holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.'_ ‘YOU ALSO' -Similar t...
1-10 Evil-speaking is a sign of malice and guile in the heart; and hinders our profiting by the word of God. A new life needs suitable food. Infants desire milk, and make the best endeavours for it w...
AS LIVELY; viz. as being enlivened by Christ. The word here translated _lively, _ and _living_ in the former verse, is the same; but being there spoken of Christ, it is to be understood actively, and...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians Nevertheless, I have heard of some who have passed on from this to you, having false doctrine, whom ye did not suffer to sow among you, but stopped your ears, tha...
1 Peter 2:5 you G846 also G2532 as G5613 living G2198 (G5723) stones G3037 up G3618 (G5743) spiritual...
‘You also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.' And as a result of this contact with th...
GOD'S PURPOSE FOR HIS BEGOTTEN AGAIN AND REDEEMED PEOPLE (1 PETER 2:1). In view of the glorious future that is theirs as previously revealed, and the responsibility that is theirs, which will now be r...
1 Peter 2:5. BE YE ALSO AS LIVING STONES BUILT UP. The verb admits of being construed either as indicative or as imperative. The former is preferred by the E. V., in which it follows Tyndale, Cranmer,...
YE ALSO AS LIVING STONES (κα αυτο ως λιθο ζωντες). Peter applies the metaphor about Christ as the living stone to the readers, "ye yourselves also."ARE BUILT UP A SPIRITUAL HOUSE (οικοδομεισθε οικ...
1 Peter 2:5 Trifles to do, not Trifles to leave undone. I. It was a great saying of the Psalmist when he said, "I am small and of no reputation, yet do I put my trust in Thee." A very great saying; f...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: Ha...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice,_ This is one of the old corruptible things, so put it away from you 1 Peter 2:1. _And all guile,_ All crafty tricks, all falsehood, exaggeration, do...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,_ Putting these evil things right away from you, having nothing further to do with...
1 Peter 2:1. _Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,-_ This is what we are to lay aside, to put away from us, to banish altogether. The...
CONTENTS: Exhortation to holiness and growth in view of Christ's great sacrifice. Christ's vicarious sufferings. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Peter. CONCLUSION: The Word of God is the proper and necessar...
1 Peter 2:4. _To whom coming as to a living stone._ The jews boasted of their temple, an undisputed blessing. But when the christians fled from Jerusalem, they took the true, the living temple with th...
AND LET YOURSELVES BE USED. "Through the living and eternal word of God, you have been born again and have become living stones! You must let yourselves be used in building the spiritual temple." Note...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 2:4.—The figure is now changed, and the apostle deals with the Christian Church rather than the Christian individual. Two things were present to his mind—the ma...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 2:1 WHEREFORE LAYING ASIDE. Those who would wear the white robe of regeneration must lay aside the filthy garments (Zechariah 3:3) of the old carnal life. So St. Paul bids us put...
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and all envying, and all evil speakings (1 Peter 2:1), Set these things aside, we're to love one another with a pure heart fervently....
1 Corinthians 3:16; 1 Corinthians 6:19; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 Peter 4:11;...
Living stones - built up - a spiritual house. It seems as though Peter must have had in mind the conception embodied in Christ's commission to him, of a building erected upon a rock. The metaphor of a...
CHRIST THE LIVING STONE 1 Peter 2:4 INTRODUCTORY WORDS One of the striking beauties of the Word of God, is the commonplace similitudes which abound in its writings. It is marvelous how the Holy Spi...
Ye — Believers. As living stones — Alive to God through him. Are built up — In union with each other. A spiritual house — Being spiritual yourselves, and an habitation of God through the Spirit. An ho...
To you belongs the honour of being built. spiritual house upon Christ, the chief corner-stone, which renders him deservedly precious to you, and of. very high estimation with you; whatever mean, low,...