1 Peter 1:13-25

Bible Text

[13] Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ-- [14] as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, [15] but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; [16] because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy." [17] If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as strangers here in reverent fear: [18] knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, [19] but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, the blood of Christ; [20] who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of times for your sake, [21] who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God. [22] Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently: [23] having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever. [24] For, "All flesh is like grass, And all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls; [25] But the Lord's word endures forever." This is the word of good news which was preached to you.

Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia were Roman provinces or regions in northern and western Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). They identify the dispersed Christian recipients of 1 Peter, whose pilgrim status amid pagan societies gives particular force to the call to holiness, reverent living, and hope in God’s saving work.

Places in this passage

1 Peter 1:13-25 mentions Asia, Bithynia, Cappadocia, Galatia and Pontus.

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