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BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN, BE YE HOLY; FOR I AM HOLY - Leviticus 11:44.
This command was addressed at first to the Israelites, but it is with
equal propriety addressed to Christians, as the professed peop...
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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...
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Here the practical aim of the epistle becomes at the earliest possible
moment clearly manifest. The writer finds in the central reality of
the Christian faith the example, sacrifice, and resurrection...
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BE YE HOLY, &C. Quoted from Leviticus 11:44. See also Leviticus 19:2;
Leviticus 20:7....
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_because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy_ Literally, YE SHALL
BE HOLY, the future, as in the Ten Commandments, having the force of
the imperative. The words, which occur frequently in the Lev...
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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...
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DISCOURSE: 2386
NECESSITY OF HOLINESS
1 Peter 1:15. _As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in
all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I
am holy_.
IT is thought...
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_2. GODLINESS 1:15, 16_
1 Peter 1:15-16 but like as he who called you is holy, be ye
yourselves also holy in all manner of living; because it is written,
Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.
_Expanded T...
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Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Scripture is the source of all authority in questions of doctrine and
practice.
BE YE HOLY; FOR I AM It is ME you have to do with Ye are mine We a...
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VERSE 16 BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN, BE YE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
I take this to be a quotation from Leviticus 19:2, which reads: "Speak
unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto
them...
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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...
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1:16 written, (k-4) See Leviticus 19:2 . 'Holy' here is _ hagios_ .
see Note i, Hebrews 7:26 ....
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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...
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BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN] It was a habit of St. Peter to clench his words
in this way. From the sacred writings he recognised no appeal: cp. 1
Peter 1:24; 1 Peter 2:6; 1 Peter 3:5;...
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Children often look like their parents and behave like them.
Christians are now children of God, because God is their Father in
heaven. God is holy. God wants his children to be like him. They must
ha...
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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...
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BE YE HOLY; FOR I AM HOLY. — The better reading here is, _Ye shall
he holy;_ it is still, however, a command, not a promise — except
that all God’s commands are promises. The command comes some five o...
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(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...
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CHAPTER 4
THE CHRISTIAN'S IDEAL, AND THE STEPS THEREUNTO
1 Peter 1:13
THE Apostle, who has set forth the character of the Christian's
election, who has given to the converts large assurance for the...
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_Practical admonitions_. In this section St. Peter is engrossed with
the conception of the Church as the new Israel which has been
delivered from idolatry the spiritual Egypt by a _far more excellent...
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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,...
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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...
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STRIVING TO BE HOLY, LIKE GOD
Christians should try instead to conform to God, who is holy (Hebrews
12:14). The idea is set apart from sinfulness for God's service. This
is very similar to the Lord's...
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(9) Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
(9) He shows that sanctification does necessarily follow adoption....
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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
Re 1-22, and live upon that inheritance which is Christ himself, now
by fait...
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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...
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_PERSONAL HOLINESS_
‘Be ye holy; for I am Holy.’
1 Peter 1:16
The question at once meets us, ‘What is holiness?’ The original
word, which we have translated ‘holiness,’ means ‘without
earthliness.’...
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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...
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BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN,.... In Leviticus 11:44
BE YE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY: an argument the apostle knew must have
weight with these persons, who were chiefly Jews, scattered abroad
among the Gentiles,...
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Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Ver. 16. _Be ye holy_] _i.e._ Separate from sin, and dedicated to God,
in conformity to whom stands our happiness. _See Trapp on "_ Mat 5:48
_"_...
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_Wherefore_ Since your lot is fallen into these glorious times,
wherein you enjoy such high privileges above what the people of God
formerly enjoyed; since the blessings which are set before you are s...
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BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN, BE YE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.
Because the believers are kept by the power of God through faith unto
salvation, therefore there is need that they be strengthened in faith
and a holy...
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AN ADMONITION TO LEAD A GODLY LIFE.
The need of holiness:...
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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),...
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_ 1 Peter 1:16 ‘because it is written, “You shall be holy, for. am
holy”'_
‘BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN' -‘the verb is in the perfect tense in
Greek, thus indicating past action with existing results. Expan...
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13-16 As the traveller, the racer, the warrior, and the labourer,
gathered in their long and loose garments, that they might be ready in
their business, so let Christians do by their minds and affect...
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I am your Father, and therefore you ought to imitate and obey me: or,
I that have severed you from other people, that you should be mine,
LEVITICUS 20:26, to which place particularly this seems to ref...
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Tertullian On Exhortation to Chastity
that we may be "holy" just as Himself is "holy."[5]...
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1 Peter 1:16 because G1360 written G1125 (G5769) Be G1096 (G5634) holy
G40 for G3754 I G1473 am...
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‘Because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy”.'
And this requirement is confirmed by the Scriptures. The citation is
from Leviticus 11:44 (compare Exodus 22:31; Leviticus 19:2;...
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IN THE LIGHT OF THEIR GREAT PRIVILEGE AND BLESSING THEY SHOULD SET
THEMSELVES TO LIVE ACCORDINGLY (1 PETER 1:13).
In the light of the wonder of the message that has come to them, and
of the sanctifyin...
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1 Peter 1:16. BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN, YE SHALL BE HOLY; FOR I AM HOLY.
The future, ‘ye shall be,' is better supported than the imperative,
‘be ye.' The sense, however, remains.substantially the same. P...
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The rapid outline of the magnificence of the salvation prepares the
way for what is to be urged in the form of duty. The Preface, which
has so much of the Pauline style both in idea and in conciliator...
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BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN
(διοτ γεγραπτα). "Because (διοτ stronger than οτ
below) it stands written" (regular formula for O.T. quotation, perfect
passive indicative of γραφω). The quotation is from Levi...
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1 Peter 1:16
God's Holiness and Man's.
I. The nature of God is the foundation of moral obligation. When we
travel in thought to the cause and origin of all things, we
perpetually fall back on God as...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THE SCRIPTURE SAYS. "Moses, whom some of the false teachers claim to
honor, wrote the same thing in Leviticus 19:2. "[Peter did not quote
chapter and verse divisions, since they originated in the sixt...
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_Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind._
TIGHTEN THE BELT
“Wherefore,” for this reason, that your salvation was so great an
object of interest to prophets and to angels, it becomes you to
maintai...
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1 PETER—NOTE ON 1 PETER 1:13 The inheritance promised to followers
of Christ should motivate them to set their hope entirely on their
future reward (vv. 1 Peter 1:13) and to live in fear of the God wh
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
1 Peter 1:13. BE SOBER.—The word suggests a sobriety of the Nazarite
type. TO THE END.—Margin, perfectly; hope with a hope that lacks
nothing of completeness.
1 Peter...
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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...
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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...
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Amos 3:3; Leviticus 11:44; Leviticus 19:2; Leviticus 20:7...
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STRENGTHENING THE BRETHREN
1 Peter 1:10
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
By way of introduction we wish to emphasize the concluding message of
our last sermon. 1 Peter 1:7 tells us of the trial of faith. It is
de...
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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...
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Leviticus 11:44....