Whereby (di wn). Probably the glory and virtue just mentioned, though it is possible to take it with panta ta pro, etc., or with hmin (unto us, meani...
Overview - 1?Peter 4 1?He exhorts them to cease from sin by the example of Christ, and the consideration of the general end that now approaches; 12?an...
Overview - 1?Peter 3 1?He teaches the duty of wives and husbands to each other; 8?exhorting all men to unity and love; 14?and to suffer persecution. ...
Overview - 1?Peter 4 1?He exhorts them to cease from sin by the example of Christ, and the consideration of the general end that now approaches; 12?an...
Daniel 24 25 Quotation from Isaiah 40:6-8 (partly like the LXX, partly like the Hebrew). For (dioti). As in verse 1?Peter 1:16 (dia and oti), ...
Wherefore (wste). Picking up the thread of consolation again (Bigg). Commit their souls (paratiqesqwsan ta psuca). Present (continuous) middle impera...
Were standing (isthkeisan). Past perfect active of isthmi intransitive and used like an imperfect as in John 19:25 . Round about (kuklwi). Prepositi...
Overview - 1?Peter 5 1?He exhorts the elders to feed their flocks; 5?the younger to obey; 8?and all to be sober, watchful, and constant in the faith...
Lascivious doings (aselgeiai). Associative instrumental ease after exakolouqhsousin (future active, for which verb see 1?Peter 1:16 ). See 1?Peter ...
Overview - 1?Peter 4 1?He exhorts them to cease from sin by the example of Christ, and the consideration of the general end that now approaches; 12?an...
Chapter 55:9? Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. world kosm...
Wherefore (dio). As in Philippians 1:10 Philippians 1:12 . Give diligence (spoudasate). As in Philippians 1:10 . That ye may be found (eureqhnai)....
INTRODUCTION AUTHENTICITY AND GENUINENESS.--If not a gross imposture, its own internal witness is unequivocal in its favor. It has Peter's name and...
Having been begotten again (anagegennhmenoi). Perfect passive participle of anagennaw, which see in verse 1?Peter 2 . Not of corruptible seed (ouk e...
Temperance (thn egkrateian). Self-control. Old word (from egkrath, en and krato, one holding himself in as in Titus 1:8 ), in N.T. only here, Acts ...
Upon (epi). In the case of righteous (dikaiou, in the O.T. sense like dikaion Lot in 2?Peter 2:7 ) for their good, but in the case of men that do ev...
Overview - Jude 1 1?He exhorts them to be constant in the profession of the faith. 4?False teachers are crept in to seduce them, for whose evil doctr...
Overview - 1?Peter 1 1?He blesses God for his manifold spiritual graces; 10?shewing that the salvation in Christ is no news, but a thing prophesied of...
Overview - 1?Peter 4 1?He exhorts them to cease from sin by the example of Christ, and the consideration of the general end that now approaches; 12?an...