THE Entire 1st Epistle of Peter
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1st. Peter
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PETER’s 1st EPISTLE
Ch. 1 1st Peter
1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ,
to the strangers, scattered throughout
Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia,
and Bithynia,
1:2 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.
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 resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead,
1:4 to an inheritance incorruptible, and
undefiled, and that fadeth not away,
reserved in heaven for you,
1:5 who are kept by the power of God,
through faith, unto salvation,
ready to be revealed in the last time.
1:6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice,
though now, for a season if need be,
ye are in heaviness through
manifold temptations:
1:7 that the trial of your faith,
being much more precious than of
gold, that perisheth,
though it be tried with fire,
might be found unto praise and
honor and glory, at the
appearing of Jesus Christ:
1:8 Whom, having not seen, ye love;
in whom,
though now ye see him not,
yet believing, ye rejoice with
joy unspeakable, and full of glory:
1:9 Receiving the end of your faith,
even the salvation of your souls.
1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have
enquired and searched diligently,
who prophesied of the grace that
should come unto you:
1:11 Searching what, or what manner of time
the Spirit of Christ, which was in them,
did signify,
when it testified beforehand the
sufferings of Christ, and the
glory that should follow.
1:12 Unto whom it was revealed, that,
not unto themselves, but unto us
they did minister the things,
which are now reported unto you by
them that have preached the
gospel unto you,
with the Holy Ghost,
sent down from heaven;
which things,
the angels desire to look into.
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;
1:14 as obedient children,
not fashioning yourselves according to the
former lusts, in your ignorance:
1:15 but as he which hath called you is
holy, so be ye holy, in all manner of
conversation;
1:16 because it is written,
Be ye holy; for I am holy.
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:
1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were
not redeemed with corruptible
things, as silver and gold, from your
vain conversation received by tradition
from your fathers;
1:19 but with the
precious blood of Christ, as of a
lamb without blemish, and without spot:
1:20 Who verily, was foreordained before the
foundation of the world, but was
manifest in these last times, for you,
1:21 who,
by him, do believe in God that
raised him up from the dead, and
gave him glory;
that your faith and hope,
might be in God.
1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls,
in obeying the truth;
through the Spirit,
unto unfeigned love of the brethren,
see that ye love one another
with a pure heart, fervently:
1:23 Being born again, not of
corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by
the word of God, which liveth and
abideth for ever.
1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the
glory of man as the flower of grass.
The grass withereth, and the
flower thereof falleth away:
1:25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever.
And this is the word, which by the
gospel, is preached unto you.
Ch. 2 1st Peter
2:1 Wherefore, laying aside all malice, and
all guile, and hypocrisies and
envies, all evil speakings,
2:2 as newborn babes, desire the
sincere milk of the word, that ye may
grow thereby:
2:3 If so be, ye have tasted that the
Lord is gracious.
2:4 To whom, coming,
as unto a living stone,
disallowed indeed of men, but
chosen of God, and precious,
2:5 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.
2:6 Wherefore, also,
it is contained in the scripture,
Behold,
I lay in Sion, a chief corner stone,
elect, precious:
And he that believeth on
him, shall not be confounded.
2:7 Unto you therefore, which believe,
he is precious:
But unto them which be disobedient,
the stone which the builders disallowed, the
same is made, the head of the corner,
2:8 and a stone of stumbling,
and a rock of offence, even to them which
stumble at the word, being disobedient:
Whereunto also, they were appointed.
2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a
royal priesthood, an holy nation,
a peculiar people;
that ye should shew forth the
praises of him, who hath
called you out of darkness into his
marvelous light;
2:10 Which, in time past were not a people,
but are now the people of God:
Which had not obtained mercy, but
now, have obtained mercy.
2:11 Dearly beloved,
I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims,
abstain from fleshly lusts,
which war against the soul;
2:12 Having your conversation honest among
the Gentiles:
That, whereas they speak against you as
evildoers, they may, by your good works,
which they shall behold,
glorify God in the day of visitation.
2:13 Submit yourselves to every
ordinance of man for the Lord's sake:
whether it be to the king as supreme;
2:14 or unto governors, as unto them that
are sent by him, for the punishment of
evildoers, and for the praise of them that
do well.
2:15 For so is the will of God,
that with well doing ye may put to
silence, the ignorance, of foolish men:
2:16 As free, and not using your liberty for a
cloak of maliciousness,
but as the servants of God.
2:17 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood.
Fear God. Honor the king.
2:18 Servants, be subject to your
masters with all fear; not only to the
good and gentle, but also to the froward.
2:19 For this is thankworthy, if a man,
for conscience toward God,
endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
2:20 For what glory is it, if,
when ye be buffeted for your
faults, ye shall take it patiently?
But if, when ye do well,
and suffer for it, ye take it patiently,
this is acceptable with God.
2:21 For even hereunto were ye called:
Because Christ also suffered for us,
leaving us an example, that ye
should follow his steps:
2:22 Who did no sin, neither was
guile found in his mouth:
2:23 Who, when he was reviled,
reviled not again; when he suffered, he
threatened not;
but committed himself to
him that judgeth righteously:
2:24 Who his own self, bare our sins in
his own body on the tree, that we,
being dead to sins, should live
unto righteousness:
By whose stripes ye were healed.
2:25 For ye were as sheep going astray;
but are now returned unto the
Shepherd, and Bishop, of your souls.
Ch. 3 1st Peter
3:1 Likewise, ye wives,
be in subjection to your own
husbands; that,
if any obey not the word,
they also may, without the word,
be won by the conversation of the wives;
3:2 while they behold your chaste conversation,
coupled with fear.
3:3 Whose adorning, let it not be that
outward adorning of plaiting the
hair, and of wearing of gold, or of
putting on of apparel;
3:4 but let it be the hidden man of the
heart,
in that which is not corruptible,
even the ornament of a meek and
quiet spirit,
which is, in the
sight of God, of great price.
3:5 For after this manner,
in the old time, the holy women also,
who trusted in God,
adorned themselves, being in
subjection unto their own husbands:
3:6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling
him lord:
Whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well,
and are not afraid, with any amazement.
3:7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with
them according to knowledge,
giving honor unto the wife, as unto the
weaker vessel,
and as being heirs together of
the grace of life;
that your prayers be not hindered.
3:8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having
compassion one of another, love as
brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
3:9 Not rendering evil for evil,
or railing for railing:
But contrariwise, blessing;
knowing that ye are thereunto called,
that ye should inherit a blessing.
3:10 For he that will love life, and
see good days, let him refrain his
tongue from evil, and his lips,
that they speak no guile:
3:11 Let him eschew evil, and do good;
let him seek peace, and ensue it.
3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the
righteous, and his ears are
open unto their prayers:
But the face of the Lord is against them
that do evil.
3:13 And who is he that will harm you,
if ye be followers of that which is good?
3:14 But,
and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake,
happy are ye:
And be not afraid of their terror,
neither be troubled;
3:15 but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts:
And be ready always, to give an answer to
every man that asketh you, a reason, of the
hope that is in you,
with meekness, and fear:
3:16 Having a good conscience; that,
whereas they speak evil of you,
as of evildoers,
they may be ashamed that
falsely accuse your
good conversation in Christ.
3:17 For it is better,
if the will of God be so,
that ye suffer for well doing,
than for evil doing.
3:18 For Christ also hath once
suffered for sins,
the just for the unjust,
that he might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh,
but quickened, by the Spirit:
3:19 By which also,
he went and preached unto the
spirits in prison;
3:20 which
sometime were disobedient,
when once,
the longsuffering of God waited,
in the days of Noah,
while the ark was a preparing,
wherein few, that is, eight souls,
were saved by water.
3:21 The like figure,
whereunto even baptism doth
also now save us,
(not the putting away of the
filth of the flesh, but the answer of a
good conscience toward God,)
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
3:22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the
right hand of God;
angels, and authorities, and powers being
made subject unto him.
Ch. 4 1st Peter
4:1 Forasmuch then, as Christ hath
suffered for us in the flesh,
arm yourselves likewise, with the
same mind:
For he that hath suffered in the
flesh, hath ceased from sin;
4:2 that he no longer should live the
rest of his time in the flesh,
to the lusts of men,
but to the will of God.
4:3 For the time past of our life may
suffice us to have wrought the
will of the Gentiles,
when we walked in lasciviousness,
lusts, excess of wine, revellings,
banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
4:4 Wherein they think it strange, that ye
run not with them,
to the same excess of riot,
speaking evil of you:
4:5 Who shall give account to him that is
ready to judge the quick and the dead.
4:6 For this cause was the gospel
preached, also to them that are dead,
that they might be judged according to
men in the flesh,
but live, according to God,
in the spirit.
4:7 But the end of all things is at hand:
Be ye therefore sober, and
watch, unto prayer.
4:8 And above all things, have fervent
*love* among yourselves:
For *love* shall cover the
multitude of sins. *charity*
4:9 Use hospitality, one to another,
without grudging.
4:10 As every man hath received the gift,
even so, minister the same,
one to another, as good stewards,
of the manifold grace of God.
4:11 If any man speak,
let him speak as the
oracles of God;
if any man minister,
let him do it as of the
ability which God giveth:
That God, in all things, may be
glorified through Jesus Christ,
to whom be praise, and
dominion, for ever and ever. Amen.
4:12 Beloved,
think it not strange concerning the
fiery trial which is to try you,
as though some strange thing
happened unto you:
4:13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are
partakers of Christ's sufferings;
that when his glory shall be revealed,
ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
4:14 If ye be reproached for the name of
Christ, happy are ye;
for the spirit of glory, and of God,
resteth upon you:
On their part, he is evil spoken of,
but on your part, he is glorified.
4:15 But let none of you suffer as a
murderer, or as a thief, or as an
evildoer, or as a busybody in
other men's matters.
4:16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian,
let him not be ashamed; but
let him glorify God on this behalf.
4:17 For the time is come, that
judgment must begin at the house of God:
And if it first begin at us,
what shall the end be of them that
obey not the gospel of God?
4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved,
where shall the ungodly and
the sinner appear?
4:19 Wherefore,
let them that suffer according to
the will of God,
commit the keeping of their
souls to him in well doing,
as unto a faithful Creator.
Ch. 5 1st Peter
5:1 The elders,
which are among you I exhort,
who am also an elder, and a
witness of the sufferings of Christ,
and also a partaker of the glory
that shall be revealed:
5:2 Feed the flock of God which is
among you,
taking the oversight thereof,
not by constraint, but willingly;
not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
5:3 neither
as being lords over God's heritage,
but being ensamples to the flock.
5:4 And when the chief Shepherd shall
appear, ye shall receive a crown of
glory that fadeth not away.
5:5 Likewise, ye younger,
submit yourselves unto
the elder.
Yea, all of you,
be subject, one to another,
and be clothed with humility:
For God resisteth the proud,
and giveth grace to the humble.
5:6 Humble yourselves therefore,
under the mighty hand of God,
that he may exalt you in due time:
5:7 Casting all your care upon him;
for he careth for you.
5:8 be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary, the devil,
as a roaring lion walketh about,
seeking whom he may devour:
5:9 Whom resist, steadfast in the faith,
knowing that the same afflictions are
accomplished in your brethren,
that are in the world.
5:10 But the God of all grace,
who hath called us unto his eternal
glory, by Christ Jesus,
after that ye have suffered a while,
make you perfect, stablish,
strengthen, settle you.
5:11 To him be glory and dominion for
ever and ever. Amen.
5:12 By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you,
as I suppose, I have written briefly,
exhorting, and testifying, that this is the
true grace of God wherein ye stand.
5:13 The church that is at Babylon,
elected together with you, saluteth
you; and so doth Marcus, my son.
5:14 Greet ye one another with a
kiss of love *charity*.
Peace be with you all
that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.
*Ch.4 vs 8 & Ch.5 vs 14* love, not charity.
(Agape, Godly Love)
The Entire 2nd Epistle of Peter;
based on The King James Bible of 1611.
Edited & Formatted to be read with the reading of:
PETER’S 2nd EPISTLE
Ch. 1 2nd Peter
1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of
Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like
precious faith with us, through the
righteousness of God, and
our Savior Jesus Christ:
1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto
you through the knowledge of God,
and of Jesus, our Lord,
1:3 According as his divine power hath
given unto us all things that pertain unto
life and godliness, through the knowledge of
him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding
great and precious promises:
That by these, ye might be partakers of
the divine nature, having escaped
the corruption that is in the
world, through lust.
1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence,
add to your faith, virtue;
and to virtue knowledge;
1:6 and to knowledge,
temperance; and to temperance, patience;
and to patience, godliness;
1:7 and to godliness, brotherly kindness;
and to brotherly kindness, love* charity*.
1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound,
they make you that ye shall
neither be barren nor unfruitful in the
knowledge of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
1:9 But he that lacketh these things, is
blind, and cannot see afar off,
and hath forgotten that he was
purged from his old sins.
1:10 Wherefore, the rather, brethren,
give diligence to make your calling and
election sure:
For if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
1:11 For so an entrance shall be
ministered unto you, abundantly, into the
everlasting kingdom of our
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
1:12 Wherefore, I will not be negligent to
put you always in remembrance of
these things, though ye know them,
and be established in the present truth.
1:13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in
this tabernacle, to stir you up by
putting you in remembrance;
1:14 knowing that shortly, I must put off this,
my tabernacle, even as our Lord,
Jesus Christ, hath shewed me.
1:15 Moreover, I will endeavor, that ye may be
able, after my decease, to have these
things always in remembrance.
1:16 For we have not followed cunningly
devised fables when we made
known unto you the power, and
coming, of our Lord, Jesus Christ, but were
eyewitnesses of his majesty.
1:17 For he received from God, the Father,
honor and glory, when there came such a
voice to him from the excellent glory,
This is my beloved Son,
in whom I am well pleased.
1:18 And this voice, which came from heaven,
we heard, when we were with him in
the holy mount.
1:19 We have also a more sure word of
prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye
take heed, as unto a light that
shineth in a dark place, until the
day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the
scripture is of any private interpretation.
1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by
the will of man:
But holy men of God spake, as they
were moved, by the Holy Ghost.
Ch. 2 2nd Peter
2:1 But there were false prophets also
among the people, even as there shall be
false teachers among you,
who privily shall bring in damnable heresies,
even denying the Lord that bought them,
and bring upon themselves, swift destruction.
2:2 And many shall follow their
pernicious ways; by reason of whom the
way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
2:3 And through covetousness, shall they, with
feigned words, make merchandise of you:
Whose judgment, now of a long time,
lingereth not, and their damnation,
slumbereth not.
2:4 For if God spared not, the angels that sinned,
but cast them down to hell, and
delivered them into chains of darkness,
to be reserved unto judgment;
2:5 and spared not the old world,
but saved Noah, the eighth person, a
preacher of righteousness,
bringing in the flood upon the
world of the ungodly;
2:6 and
turning the cities of Sodom and
Gomorrha into ashes,
condemned them, with an overthrow,
making them an ensample unto those that,
after, should live ungodly;
2:7 and
delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy
conversation of the wicked:
2:8 (For that righteous man,
dwelling among them,
in seeing and hearing,
vexed his righteous soul from day to
day, with their unlawful deeds;)
2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the
godly out of temptations, and to
reserve the unjust unto the day of
judgment, to be punished:
2:10 But chiefly, them that walk after the
flesh, in the lust of uncleanness,
and despise government.
Presumptuous are they, self willed,
they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
2:11 Whereas angels, which are greater in
power and might,
bring not railing accusation against
them before the Lord.
2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts,
made to be taken and destroyed,
speak evil of the things that they
understand not; and shall utterly
perish, in their own corruption;
2:13 and shall receive the
reward of unrighteousness, as they that
count it pleasure to riot in the
day time.
Spots, they are, and blemishes,
sporting themselves with their own
deceivings, while they feast with you;
2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that
cannot cease from sin;
beguiling unstable souls:
An heart they have exercised with
covetous practices; cursed children:
2:15 which have forsaken the
right way, and are gone astray,
following the way of Balaam, the son of
Bosor, who loved the wages of
unrighteousness;
2:16 but was
rebuked for his iniquity:
The dumb ass, speaking with man's
voice, forbad the madness of the prophet.
2:17 These are wells without water,
clouds that are carried with a tempest;
to whom the mist of darkness is
reserved, for ever.
2:18 For when they speak great, swelling
words of vanity, they allure,
through the lusts of the flesh,
through much wantonness,
those that were clean,
escaped from them who live in error.
2:19 While they promise them liberty,
they themselves are the
servants of corruption:
For of whom a man is overcome,
of the same, is he brought in bondage.
2:20 For if, after they have escaped the
pollutions of the world, through
the knowledge of the
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are
again entangled therein, and overcome,
the latter end, is worse with them,
than the beginning.
2:21 For it had been better for them not to
have known the way of righteousness, than,
after they have known it, to turn from the
holy commandment delivered unto them.
2:22 But, it is happened unto them, according to
the true proverb,
the dog is turned to his own vomit again;
and the sow that was washed, to her
wallowing in the mire.
Ch. 3 2nd Peter
3:1 This second epistle, beloved,
I now write unto you; in both,
which I stir up your pure minds,
by way of remembrance:
3:2 That ye may be mindful of the
words which were spoken before, by the
holy prophets, and of the commandment of us,
the apostles of the Lord and Savior:
3:3 Knowing this first,
that there shall come, in the last days,
scoffers, walking after their own lusts
3:4 and saying,
where is the promise of his coming?
For since the fathers fell asleep, all things
continue as they were from the beginning
of the creation.
3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of,
that by the word of God,
the heavens were of old, and
the earth, standing out of the water, and in
the water:
3:6 Whereby, the world that then was,
being overflowed with water, perished:
3:7 But the heavens and the earth,
which are now, by the same word, are
kept in store, reserved unto fire,
against the day of judgment and
perdition of ungodly men.
3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one
thing, that one day is
with the Lord, as a thousand years,
and a thousand years, as one day.
3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise,
as some men count slackness;
but is longsuffering to us-ward,
not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to repentance.
3:10 But the day of the Lord will come,
as a thief in the night; in the which the
heavens shall pass away with a
great noise, and the elements
shall melt with fervent heat,
the earth also, and the works that are
therein, shall be burned up.
3:11 Seeing then,
that all these things shall be dissolved,
what manner of persons ought ye to be,
in all holy conversation and godliness,
3:12 looking for,
and hasting unto, the
coming of the day of God, wherein
the heavens, being on fire,
shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt,
with fervent heat?
3:13 Nevertheless, we, according to his promise,
look for new heavens, and
a new earth,
wherein dwelleth righteousness.
3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye
look for such things, be
diligent, that ye may be found of him in peace,
without spot, and blameless.
3:15 And account, that the longsuffering of
our Lord is salvation; even as our
beloved brother Paul,
also, according to the wisdom given unto him,
hath written unto you;
3:16 as also,
in all his epistles,
speaking in them of these things;
in which are some things
hard to be understood,
which they that are unlearned, and
unstable, wrest,
as they do also the other scriptures,
unto their own destruction.
3:17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye
know these things before, beware,
lest ye also, being led away with the
error of the wicked, fall from your
own steadfastness.
3:18 But grow in grace, and in the
knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
To him be glory, both now, and for ever. Amen.
*Ch.1 vs.7; love; not charity.
(Agape, Godly Love)*