Quaker Bible Index: 1 Peter 1

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 [B: by that that Jesus Christ rose again] from the dead [BT: death], qtext

1:4 To [T: +enjoy] an inheritance incorruptible [GBT: immortal], and undefiled, and that fadeth not away [G: withereth not; T: purifieth not], reserved in heaven for you [G: us], qtext

1:5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready [G: which is prepared; BT: which (T: +salvation) is prepared already] to be revealed [GBT: shewed] in the last time. qtext

1:6 Wherein ye greatly [T: in the which time ye shall] rejoice, though now for a season, if need be [BT: require], ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: qtext

1:7 That the trial of your faith [T: your faith once tried], being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory [G: your praise... BT: laud, glory, and honour] at the appearing of Jesus Christ: qtext

1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love [GBT: ye have not seen and yet love him]; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory[GBT: glorious]: qtext

1:9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. qtext

(1 Pet 1:3-5) JN3: 74

(1 Pet 1:3) GF6: 298; GF8: 33 [284], 152 [352]; WDS 32, 241, 249, 310; WPR 266; SBD 69; WTG 270 (EH); SIW 131, 172

(1 Pet 1:3f) MFU 114; WTG 76 (SM)

(1 Pet 1:4) GFJN 404; GF7: 63 [48], 67 [51], 119 [124], 147 [155], 164 [356], 209 [209], 240 [226], 301 [250]; GF8: 32 [283]; MFU 76, 193, 197, 199; JN1: 257; JN3: 550 (GB); WDS 289f; EQ 304, 481; HPS 462 (MF); WPR 602; WPT 405; JWJM 205

(1 Pet 1:5) GF5: 235, 449; GF8: 5,6,7 [265], 48,51 [300], 57 [307], 72 [313], 127 [336], 135 [343], 150 [352]; JN2: 210; IP2: 402; IP3: 139, 214; IP4: 352; RBA 226; RBAF 168; WPR 37

(1 Pet 1:6f) GFJN 14

(1 Pet 1:7) GF3: 525; GF4: 288; GF7: 240 [226], 245 [231], 253 [233]; GF8: 58 [307], 123 [332]; GFEJ 344; MFU 378; HPS 513

(1 Pet 1:8) GF3: 152, 235, 425; JN1: 313; IP1: 193; IP3: 40, 131, 185, 255, 301, 402, 494, 514; IP4: 81; EQ 241 (IP); WPR 266; SIW 149, 152

(1 Pet 1:8f) RBAF 54

(1 Pet 1:9) GF4: 287; GF5: 448; MFU 201; HPS 429 (EB)

(1 Pet 1:3f)

MFU 114 (1654): of his free will hath he begotten many unto a lively hope, which shall live eternally [1 Pet 1:3f]

WPR 266 (1672): If that very same eternal, holy and unerring Spirit, which God poured out upon his only begotten Son, be in a way of succession ordained to continue with and upon all the faithful, his seed, and seed's seed, begotten unto a lively hope, by the raising of Christ Jesus from the dead [1 Pet 1:3], and so become members of his own glorious body, then are not the children of God destitute of his own unerring Spirit, nor left to their own frail and fallible judgments, to determine what is right or wrong....

WTG 76 (Susannah Morris, 1745): often enlivened with a hope to have the favours of heaven at last and be heirs of God's kingdom [1 Pet 1:3f]

(1 Pet 1:4)

GF (various places) inheritance incorruptible (immortal, GBT) and undefiled, that fadeth not away (heir of an incorruptible kingdom) [1 Pet 1:4]

[Other texts citing 1 Pet 1:4: GF8:32 (under Heb 2:7), MFU 76 (Mat 10:42)]

GF7:147 (1657): Which power ye receiving (who are in the light,) it brings you to become the sons of God [John 1:12], and to be heirs of the world where there is no end, and of the everlasting inheritance which fadeth not away [1 Pet 1:4], and the riches which are durable [Prov 8:18], where no thief can come, nor nothing to rust or canker [Mat 6:19f /Jas 5:3]; for that is out of the light that doth thieve, rust, or canker, and in the transgression.

JWJM 205 (1754): Did we so improve the gifts bestowed on us that our children might have an education suited to these doctrines, and our example to confirm it, we might rejoice in their being heirs to an inheritance incorruptible. [1 Pet 1:4]

(1 Pet 1:5)

Other texts citing 1 Pet 1:5: GF8:50 (under Luk 17:21), GF8: 57 (Rom 1:29), IP4:352 (Heb 13:5), WPR 37 (John 12:36)

GF8:48 (1673): Let your faith stand in the power of God [1 Cor 2:5], for that is your keeper [1 Pet 1:5] unto the day of salvation [Isa 49:8, 2 Cor 6:2]

IP3:214 (1672): "For ye are kept by the power of God, through faith unto salvation." [1 Pet 1:5] Keep to the power which preserves, "hold fast that which thou hast, let no man take thy crown." [Rev 3:11]

(1 Pet 1:6f)

GFJN 14 (16 ): One day, when I had been walking solitarily abroad, and was come home, I was taken up in the love of God, so that I could not but admire the greatness of his love; and while I was in that condition, it was opened unto me by the eternal light and power, and I therein clearly saw, that all was done and to be done in and by Christ; and how he conquers and destroys this tempter, the devil, and all his works [Heb 2:14/1 Jn 3:8], and is atop of him; and that all these troubles were good for me, and temptations for the trial of my faith [1 Pet 1:6f], which Christ had given me. The Lord opened me, that I saw through all these troubles and temptations.

(1 Pet 1:7)

GF7:253 (1664): Friends, this is the day of the trial of your faith [1 Pet 1:7], and therefore be faithful...

GF8:58 (1674): happy are they that are tried [Jas 1:12], that they may come forth more pure than gold [1 Pet 1:7]. [more under Jas 1:12]

MFU 378 (1664): blessed are you, whose faith fails not [Luke 22:32], but abides the fiery trial, which is to try everyone's faith [1 Pet 4:12]; and the faith which is tried, is much more precious than gold that perisheth [1 Pet 1:7].

(1 Pet 1:8)

[Other texts citing 1 Pet 1:8: IP3:140 (under Luk 5:34f), IP3: 185 (Rev 12:5)]

IP3: 255 (1672): [the light] brings into fellowship both with the Father and the Son [1 Jn 1:3], where the peace which passeth understanding [Phil 4:7], and the joy unspeakable and full of glory [1 Pet 1:8], abounds.

IP3: 513f (1676): So the tender God of my life ... instruct you, preserve you, watch over you; exercise your spirits most advantageously, daily open you to himself; keep you empty and naked before him of all your own clothing and righteousness, and fill you with that which flows from the pure, living fountain; to the unspeakable joy of your hearts, and the glory of his own name over all for ever [1 Pet 1:8].

(1 Pet 1:9)

GF5:448 (1678): And all that look for a purgatory after they are dead, are not of that true catholic faith, which ... Jesus is the author of [Heb 12:2]. For they that receive the end of this catholic faith, receive the salvation of their souls. 1 Pet 1.9.

(1 Pet 1:10f)

IP4:248 (1671?): The prophets of old prophesied of the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 1 Pet 1:10-11. Now, what was the glory which should follow? Was it not the setting up Christ's inward and invisible kingdom in the hearts of men? ....

WPT 255 (1674, Mod Eng): Objection: If God has not revealed those things that are in Scripture, how could they have been known to us? Answer: They were known by the Light and Spirit of Christ before they were written–it is only after they were written down that they are called Scripture. It is said that the prophets carefully searched what and when the Spirit of Christ, that was within them, revealed when it foretold the sufferings of Christ [1 Pet 1:10f]

(1 Pet 1:11)

[Other texts citing 1 Pet 1:11: JN1:367 (John 10:30)]

JN1:379 (1654): And whereas you say, it cannot be understood to be the word Christ that came to the prophets, Samuel, Jeremy, &c., where it seems your understanding is not that of the apostle, who said, "it was the spirit of Christ that was in them" (1 Pet 1:11), but all your wrestings [2 Pet 3:16] will not cover your folly.

(1 Pet 1:11f)

GF5:235 (1676): and the apostle, speaking of Christ, and of some searching the scriptures, when or what time the spirit which testified of Christ, which was in them, should declare the sufferings that should come unto Christ, and the glory which should follow [1 Pet 1:11G], unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves, but unto us [1 Pet 1:12AV], (to wit,) the apostles, mark here, this was known by revelation, and can any know it, think you, without revelation of the same spirit, (to wit,) Christ and his glory...

(1 Pet 1:12)

GF8:80 (1676): Which gospel I received not of man, nor by man, but of the Lord Jesus Christ [Gal 1:12], by his holy spirit sent down from heaven [1 Pet 1:12].

JSS 47 (17--): ...in turning people "from darkness to light, and from the power of satan unto God" [Acts 26:18], the gospel was preached with the holy ghost sent down from heaven [1 Pet 1:12]; and from that day to this, the gospel of life and salvation has never been, nor ever can be, any otherwise preached.

(1 Pet 1:13)

[Other texts citing 1 Pet 1:13: GF3:440 (under Heb 13:9), WPR 145 (Heb 6:12)]

GF3:290 (1659): And ye are ignorant of the grace of God which is brought at the revelation of Jesus;

GF7:61 (1653): stand with your minds girded up to God against the world [1 Pet 1:13]

MFU 389 (1665): wherefore gird up the loins of your minds, and hope unto the end [1 Pet 1:13], for he that called you is holy and pure [1 Pet 1:15], and true and faithful is he that hath promised, and so cast your care upon the Lord of heaven and earth for he careth for you [1 Pet 5:7] ....

EQ 107 (James Nayler, 1658): their minds are girded with godliness... [1 Pet 1:13]

(1 Pet 1:14)

[Other texts citing 1 Pet 1:14: RBA 429f (under Mat 15:13)]

GF7:300 (1667): And fashion not yourselves according to your former lust of ignorance [1 Pet 1:14]; and let the time past be sufficient, in which you have lived according to the lusts of men, and the course of the world, that the rest of your time you may live to the will of God....

(1 Pet 1:15)

[Other texts citing 1 Pet 1:15: MFU 389 (under 1 Pet 1:13)]

GF7:149 (1658): For he that calls, is holy [1 Pet 1:15], and calls into holiness [1 Th 4:7], without which none shall see the Lord [Heb 12:14].

(1 Pet 1:15f)

[Other texts citing 1 Pet 1:15f: JN1:12 (John 13:15)]

GF7:198 (1661): So all God's people, his children, his saints must be holy, as he is holy [1 Pet 1:16, Lev 11:44f]; and therefore do that which is holy and just in all your lives and conversations [1 Pet 1:15].

1:17 And if [BT: if so be that] ye call on the [G: him] Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass [BT: see that ye pass] the time of your sojourning [GB: dwelling; T: pilgrimage] here in fear: qtext

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 [GBT: the traditions (B: tradition) of the fathers]; qtext

1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish [GBT: undefiled] and without spot: qtext

1:20 Who verily was foreordained [GBT: Which was ordained] before the foundation of the world [B: beforehand, even before the world was made; T: before the world was made], but was manifest in these [GBT: declared in the] last times for you [GBT: your sakes],

1:21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead [BT: death], and gave him glory [BT: glorified him]; that your faith and hope might be in God [B: that ye might have faith and hope toward God].

(1 Pet 1:17)

GF7:301 (1667): And keep to justice and truth in all your dealings and tradings, ... in the power of the Lord and in equity..., So that you may pass your time here with fear [1 Pet 1:17], as pilgrims, and strangers [Heb 11:13], and sojourners, having an eye over all things that are uncertain, as cities, houses, lands, goods, and as things below.

RBA 451 (1678, XV.8): The apostle Peter desires us to "pass the time of our sojourning here in fear" [1 Pet 1:17]. But will any that such as use dancing and comedies, carding, and dicing, do so much as mind this precept in the use of these things?

(1 Pet 1:18)

GF7:31 (1653): we are redeemed by the only redeemer Christ Jesus, not with corruptible things [1 Pet 1:18]

WPR 212 (1668): it then pleased the divine goodness to visit them with the call of his light, from the inventions, carnal observations, will-worship [Col 2:23], and vain conversation [1 Pet 1:18] of those to whom they formerly were related, that they might be made children of the day [1 Th 5:5]....

(1 Pet 1:18f)

JN1:158f (1653): Thou mayest say thou art redeemed by the precious blood of Christ [1 Pet 1:19], but they that are redeemed are redeemed from their vain conversation [1 Pet 1:18].

(1 Pet 1:19)

IP2: 228 (1661): He was the Lamb without spot [1 Pet 1:19]; there was no inquity found in his heart, nor guile in his mouth [1Pet 2:22]; but he offered up his spotless soul, through the eternal Spirit, as a ransom for the souls of transgressors [Mat 20:28], and with his bruise they are healed [Isa 53:5].

(1 Pet 1:22) GF4: 314; GF7: 77 [64], 92 [81], 151 [158], 169 [178], 224 [221]; MFS 41; JN3: 248, 454, 756; IPL 52; IP1: 38; IP3: 250, 414; IP4: 344; HPS 205

(1 Pet 1:22f) GF5: 301; JN1: 76 (RF)

(1 Pet 1:23-2:2) GF4: 91

(1 Pet 1:23-25) JN3: 405

(1 Pet 1:23) GFJN 13, 24, 368, 531; GF3: 57f, 75, 92, 145, 189, 232, 327, 472, 527; GF4: 18, 168, 236, GF6: 240, 245. 255; GF7: 13[Tes], 23[15], 57 [45], 69 [54], 74 [61], 133 [138], 167 [176], 204,5 [206], 235 [222], 247 [232], 275 [245], 291 [249], 348 [264]; GF8: 16 [270], 18 [273], 33 [284], 52 [301], 63 [311], 76 [316], 83 [317], 91 [319], 127 [335,336], 152 [352],163f [356], 165 [358],181, 184 [361], 215 [377], 233 [385], 262 [397], 277 [400], 279 [401], 288 [402]; GFEJ 297; GFT 66; DGA 70, 159; MFU 220, 357 ; JN1: 34, 50, 150, 162; JN2: 44, 103, 169, 467; JN3: 24, 98, 137; 549f (GB); WDS 39, 187; IP1: 30, 41, 121, 128, 234; IP2: 346; IP3: 57, 107, 330, 491; IP4: 290, 336, 343, 347, 348; RBA 151, 206; RBAF 107, 156; EQ 291 (GF), 311; 321 (BC), 481; HPS 289; 348, 351, 391 (EB); WPR 144, 602, 611; WPT 276, 406; JSS 7, 9 , 20 , 21, 41, 44 , 58, 61, 63

(1 Pet 1:23f) GFT 140

(1 Pet 1:24) GF7: 31 [24]; IP3: 55; HPS 133; WPR 78

(1 Pet 1:24f) IPL 13f

(1 Pet 1:25) GF6: 240, 388f; JN1: 220; 268 (JWh); JN2: 170, 193; 265 (A); JN3: 18, 38, 438, 465; IP1: 30; HPS 35

(1 Pet 1:22)

[Other texts citing 1 Pet 1:22: GF7:77 (under Heb 4:12), HPS 205 (Jas 1:27)]

GF4:214 (1660): if you cannot come so high as to a christian's life, as to the gospel which is to love enemies [Mat 5:44], which love out of pure heart [1 Pet 1:22] is the end of the law, yet at least come to obey the law, which is to do as you would be done by [Mat 7:12].

IP3:414 (1678): It is the light of truth that purifieth the heart to the love unfeigned [1 Pet 1:22].

(1 Pet 1:22f)

JN1:76 (Richard Farnworth, 1653): ...having their souls purified in yielding obedience to the commands of the Spirit which the saints had which were obedient to the same Spirit, which purified their souls, as in 1 Pet 1:22-23: ....

(1 Pet 1:23)

[Other texts citing 1 Pet 1:23: GF4:236 (Rev 17:1), GF7:23f (Mat 4:9f), GF7:275 (Mat 6:33), GF8:184 (John 1:13), GF8:233 (1 Jn 1:1), GF8:277 (Rev 3:10), MFU 220 (Heb 8:2), MFU 357 (Heb 10:1), JN1: 34 (Heb 2:16), JN2:467 (John 8:58), IP3:330 (Heb 4:12), IP4:290 (John 8:32), RBA 151f (Mat 13:31f ), JSS 9 (Mat 13:33), JSS 19f (John 10:34-39), JSS 44f (Heb 2:11)]

GF (various phrases): GF7: immortal seed [GBT], everlasting seed of God, heavenly seed Christ Jesus; born of the word [all 1 Pet 1:23]

GF4:18 (1653): And the church in God [1 Th 1:1], is not in imitation, gathered from the letter, nor is a high-flown people in their imaginations, but are they who are born again of the immortal seed, by the word of God, which lives and endures forever [1 Pet 1:23], which the world knows not;

JN2:103 (1655): And thou talkest of many things without thee, as a law without, a light without, a word without, ... but with that eye which is single [Mat 6:22 | Luk 11:34], which is before the visible was, art thou seen & comprehended, and thy faith stands in visible things which shall perish, for what is seen is temporal [2 Cor 4:18], but so is not the law, and light, and word which endureth forever [1 Pet 1:23]....

IP3:57 (1667): There must be somewhat let down from God into a man's heart, to change his heart, and redeem it to God, or he cannot be saved. He must receive a seed, be born of a new and incorruptible seed, or he cannot be renewed from his corrupt nature and state.

IP4:347 (167-?): How are we of God in Christ Jesus [1 Cor 1:30], but by this seed of God, by being born of the Spirit of God, by being begotten out of the spirit of the world, into the nature and Spirit of Christ, from this immortal and incorruptible seed [1 Pet 1:23 AV,GBT] of life, truth, grace, and Spirit?

WPR 602/WPT 406 (1694): Oh ye children of the children of God, consider your standing, and see what you are in relation to this divine kindred, family and birth! Have you obeyed the incorruptible seed of the Word and Kingdom of God, of which you must be born again? [1 Pet 1:23] God is no respecter of persons [Acts 10:34]....

RBA 206 (1678, VIII.1): we do believe that to those in whom Christ comes to be formed [Gal 4:19] and the new man brought forth and born of the incorruptible seed [1 Pet 1:23], as that birth and man in union therewith naturally doth the will of God, so it is possible so far to keep to it as not to be found daily transgressors of the law of God.

JSS 7 (17--): Nothing but a true and living birth of God in the soul, of the divine and incorruptible seed [1 Pet 1:23], a real and substantial union of the divinity and humanity in one holy offspring, has ever brought salvation; and this, throughout all generations, (in all the true seed, in every heir of God and joint-heir with Christ [Rom 8:17]), is the only begotten of the Father [John 1:14].

(1 Pet 1:24)

GF7:31 (1653): [1 Pet 1:24, see under 1 Jn 2:17]

(1 Pet 1:25)

JN2:170 (1655): [of opponents bringing scriptures to prove the Bible the word of God] And thou brings 1 Pet 1:25, "The word of God endures forever," and before called it the temporal word.

(1 Pet 2:2-5)

MFU 259: [1 Pet 2:2-5, see under 1 Pet 4:12]

(1 Pet 2:2)

[Other texts citing 1 Pet 2:2: GF7:235 (under 1 Jn 1:1), GF8:184 (John 1:13), IP2:263 (John 6:51)]

GF7:234 (1662): So, as new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow thereby [1 Pet 2:2], (mark,) the milk that comes from the word which was in the beginning [John 1:1], by that milk is the growth, and not in the traditions, handle not them ... for they perish with the using of them [Col 2:21f]; so then they do not grow by them.

GF8:41 (1672): But the mothers in spiritual Israel, and church of Christ, has the cup of salvation [Psa 116:13], and the breasts of consolation [Isa 66:11], which are full of the milk of the word [1 Pet 2:2], to suckle all the young ones, and to nourish, and instruct, admonish, and exhort, and rebuke all the contrary; and to refresh and cherish every tender one.

IP4:289 (167-?): And let the power of darkness present the fruit of the dead tree ever so often, the living babe will not meddle with it, but hungers and thirsts after righteousness [Mat 5:6], and desires the sincere milk of the pure, living word [1 Pet 2:2], that it may grow thereby.

2:4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed [GBT omit] of men, but chosen of God, and precious, qtext

2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up [G: be made; B: be you made; T: are made] a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. qtext

2:6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay [GBT: put] in Sion a chief corner stone [B: a stone to be laid in the chief corner; T: an head corner stone], elect, precious: and he that believeth on him [G: therein] shall not be confounded [GT: ashamed]. qtext

2:7 Unto you therefore which believe he [G: it] is precious: but unto them which be disobedient [BT: believe not], the stone which the builders disallowed [BT: refused], the same is made the head of [T: head stone in] the corner,

2:8 And a stone of stumbling [GT: to stumble at; B: that men stumble at], and a rock of offence, even to them [B: whereat they be offended; T: to offend them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient [T omits] : whereunto also they were appointed [GB: unto the which thing they were even ordained; T: and believe not that whereon they were set.] . qtext

[1 Pet 2:8, cf Isa 8:14]

(1 Pet 2:4-9) GF5: 121

(1 Pet 2:4-8) IP3: 118, 358

(1 Pet 2:4-7) MFU 209

(1 Pet 2:4-6) IP3: 396

(1 Pet 2:4) GF5: 403; GFT 101; IP2: 456; IP3: 476; IP4: 174; HPS 140

(1 Pet 2:4f) GFEJ 416; IP3: 243, 395; HPS 147

(1 Pet 2:5) GFJN 24; GF2: 317, 324, 335, 338f; GF3: 188, 324, 349f; GF4: 18, 285, 324; GF5: 186, 301 364; GF6: 58, 70, 101, 113, 183, 234, 273, 422, 450, 455; GF7: 27 [19], 75 [61], 139 [147], 161 [171], 164 [172], 202 [206], 228 [222], 264 [239], 294 [249]; GF8: 19, 21 [275], 28 [279], 37 [287], 72 [313], 84 [318], 94 [320], 125 [333], 141 [344], 157 [354], 161 [355], 175 [360], 231 [383], 285 [402], 290 [403]; GFEJ 453; EQ 508 (GF) GFT 117, 139, 184; DGA 73, 199; LB (E113, E149); MFU 272, 389; JN1: 292; JN3: 100; WDS 68; IPL 21; IP1: 139, 227; IP2: 8, 102, 211, 432; IP3: 42, 116, 119, 131, 168, 172, 240, 290, 413; IP4: 87, 149, 412, 427; HPS 517; RBA 259; RBAF 197

(1 Pet 2:5f) GF3: 287; GF5: 354; GF7: 157 [169]; IP1: 45; IP3: 226

(1 Pet 2:6-8) GF3: 199; GF6: 163; DGA 90; MFS 34; JN3: 725 (RR)

(1 Pet 2:6) GF6: 350; GF7: 120 [124], 164 [172], 173 [184], 281 [245] 295 [249]; GF8: 24 [277], 73 [314], 123 [333]; GFT 101; IP4: 3; HPS 288; WPR 144

(1 Pet 2:6f) GF6: 303; IP2: 456

(1 Pet 2:7) MFS 85

(1 Pet 2:7f) JN3: 432; 723 (RR)

(1 Pet 2:8) GFJN 175; GF4: 25; GF5: 8, 364; GF6: 369; JN2: 40, 301; IP3: 476

(1 Pet 2:4-7)

MFU 209: [1 Pet 2:4-7, see under Heb 11:10]

(1 Pet 2:4)

GF5:403 (1679): the Babylon's brat of confusion, which the whore hath brought forth in you, must be dashed to pieces against the living stone [Psa 137:9/1 Pet 2:4]

IP3: 476 (1671): the living stone, which is the foundation of life to us, and very precious [1 Pet 2:4], is but a stone of stumbling, and rock of offence [Isa 8:14, 1 Pet 2:8], to them that are out of the life;

(1 Pet 2:4f)

IP3: 243 (1672): He that knows the living stone within [1 Pet 2:5], and comes to him as a living stone [1 Pet 2:4], and is built upon the revelation of his Spirit, life, and power (revealed inwardly against the power of darkness), is not deceived.

(1 Pet 2:5)

[Other texts citing 1 Pet 2:5: GF4:324, (under 1 Pet 2:9), GF6:58, (Heb 9:4 or Rev 5:9f), GF6:113 (Heb 3:4), GF7:27 (Heb 10:34), GF7:164 (Heb 11:10), GF8:84 (Heb 12:23), GF8: 157 (Heb 2:12), GF8: 175 (Heb 2:14); IP2:8f (Rom 1:5), IP3:42 (Mat 10:42), IP3:168 (John 6:55), HPS 517 (Heb 10:25)]

GFJN 24: I told him the Church was the pillar and ground of Truth [1 Tim 3:15], made up of living stones, living members, a spiritual household [1 Pet 2:5] which Christ was the head of [Eph 5:23], but he was not the head of a mixed multitude [Exod 12:38, Num 11:4], or of an old house made up of lime, stones, and wood.

GF2:317 (1687): Therefore all his people must be baptized with the holy ghost and with fire [Mat 3:11 | Luk 3:16], that they may be salted with fire [Mar 9:49], and every sacrifice salted with salt [Lev 2:13], with the spirit of grace, that is poured upon all [Zech 12:10/Col 4:6]; so that they may offer up this spiritual sacrifice, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ [1 Pet 2:5].

GF8:19 [275]: a royal priesthood, offering up spiritual sacrifices [1 Pet 2:5, confl w 2:9]

IP3:116 (1668): What is the church of God under the new agreement or covenant? Ans. It is a company of living stones, quickened by God, and knit together in the unity and fellowship of his Spirit [1 Cor 1:10 GBT], to worship God together in his Spirit, and offer up unto him spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. [1 Pet 2:5]

(1 Pet 2:6-8)

GF3:199 (1659): stumbling at the corner stone, elect and precious [1 Pet 2:6-8]

(1 Pet 2:6)

GF6:350 (1687): For natural Sion, the watchtower, looked over into Canaan; but this heavenly Sion, spoke of in the new testament, which is the joy of the whole earth [Psa 48:2], looks over all the earth, and in this joyful Sion, Christ the elect and precious [1 Pet 2:6] was laid.

GF7:280f (1666): all the false joys... must be shaken and removed, both the heavens and the earth, before that doth appear that never can be shaken [Heb 12:26f], the noble, royal seed, elect and precious [1 Pet 2:6], before the world began.

GF8:123 (1676): To all my dear Friends, elect and precious [1 Pet 2:6], in America.

WPR 144 (1695): You know the foundation. Is he elect? Is he precious to you? [1 Pet 2:6] Have ye chosen him? Yea, I am satisfied you have. See what you build upon him. Have a care of hay, straw, and stubble!

(1 Pet 2:8)

[Other texts citing 1 Pet 2:8: IP3:476 (under 1 Pet 2:4)]

GFJN 175: So this Light which lighteth every man that comes into the world [Jn 1:9], which they that hate it [Jn 3:19] stumble at [1 Pet 2:8], is the Light of men [Jn 1:4].

GF4:25 (1653): And all who stumble at the prophets'words, and cannot understand the words of them, spoken from the light which was in them; and all who stumble at the light [1 Pet 2:8], stumble at the apostles' words, which were declared from the light which was made manifest in all consciences [2 Cor 4:2], which ministered to the spirits in prison [1 Pet 3:19]: so all who stumble at the light, they are to be condemned with the light [John 3:19] from the life of the prophets and apostles (which dwelt in the light) with the rude wicked world.

(1 Pet 2:9)

Other texts citing 1 Pet 2:9: GF4:324 (Luk 6:4), GF7:27 (Heb 10:34), GF7:41 (John 15:14f), GF7:165 (Jas 2:8f) GF8:19 (1 Pet 2:5), GF8:50 (Luk 17:21), GF8:72 (Heb 7:11), MFU 220 (Heb 8:2)

GF4:324 (1663): And there were priests to eat of the show-bread in the temple [Mat 12:4, Lev 24:9], and the show-bread was always to be in temple on the table [Exo 25:30]; and so the Jews in the spirit [Rom 2:29] are always to have their bread in their temple, to eat of it; and ye are a spiritual household [1 Pet 2:5], and a royal priesthood to God [1 Pet 2:9].

GF7:149 (1658): know the high calling of God in Christ Jesus [Phil 3:14], who calls out of darkness into the light, out of death into life [1 Pet 2:9 /Acts 26:18]

GF7:307 (1668): his people is a holy generation [1 Pet 2:9]

MFS 77 (1666): Christ is the head of the church, the true woman, which is his wife [Eph 5:23].... The church is called a royal priesthood [1 Pet 2:9]; so the woman must offer as well as the man.

IP3:256 (1672): To [the light of God's Spirit] men are to be turned, unto this they are to be gathered, into this they are to be translated (even from the kindom of darkness [Col 1:13], into the Son's marvellous light [1 Pet 2:9])

WTG 92 (Susanna Morris, 1752): calleth out of darkness into his marvelous light a royal priesthood [1 Pet 2:9]

(1 Pet 2:11)

GF7:43f (1653): And keep in the lowly mind, and the humility of Christ [Mat 11:29] ... that ye may obtain victory over that which wars against your souls [1 Pet 2:11]

[Other texts citing 1 Pet 2:11: MFS 54 under Jas 4:1]

(1 Pet 2:11f)

HPS 425f (Elizabeth Bathurst, 1679): as we abide in the fear, being clothed with humility [1 Pet 5:5], so shall we be preserved in our spiritual station, while we are as strangers and pilgrims on the earth [1 Pet 2:11], to have our conversation honest (and as much as lies in us inoffensive) amongst them that are without... [quotes rest of 2:12]

(1 Pet 2:12)

IP2: 219 (1661): ... there have been vehement desires in me ... towards mankind in general, that they might have an exceeding merciful and powerful day of visitation [1 Pet 2:12], even that the whole earth might be touched with the power of life, and drawn out of the darkness.

RBA 132-135 (1678, V/VI.19): The first thing to be proved is, that God hath given to every man a day or time of visitation [Isa 10:3, Luke 19:43f, 1 Pet 2:12], wherein it is possible for him to be saved. [Barclay devotes the rest of the section to proving it.]

(1 Pet 2:13-16) GF4: 88f; GF6: 309-24

(1 Pet 2:13-15) EQ 347 (BC)

(1 Pet 2:13) GFEJ 325; RBA 3; WPR 643

(1 Pet 2:13f) GF4: 308; GF6: 311ff, 317ff, 327; GF8: 86-90 [319]; GFEJ 323; LB (G19); IP1: 325

(1 Pet 2:14) GFJN 197f, 220, 401, 460; GF3: 166, 224, 286, 545f, 552; GF4: 52, 274; GF5: 34; GF7: 105 [103], 165 [172], 178 [188], 183 [192]; GF8: 88 [319]; MFU 141, 355JN1: 21, 140, 182; JN2: 258; IP1: 71; IP3: 471; IP4: 162; EQ 302, 364; HPS 244 (MF); WPR 471, 510

(1 Pet 2:15) GF6: 173f

(1 Pet 2:15f) GF8: 87 [319]

(1 Pet 2:16) GF8: 187 [362]; GFEJ 386; JN1: 236; JN2: 565

(1 Pet 2:17) GFNJ 467, 507; GF3: 81, 277; GF4: 208-215, 339; GF5: 222; GF6: 346; GF7: 68 [53], 216 [215]; LB (B55, G19); JN2: 101;IP3: 471; EQ 368; WPR 510

(1 Pet 2:13-16)

GF4: 88 (1656) [quotes 1 Pet 2:13-16] And again, Peter who was in the light, and his soul subject to the higher power [Rom 13:1], and owned every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake [1 Pet 2:13], which went against the evil, he said unto the rulers when they commanded him to speak no more in the name of Jesus, whether it was better to obey God, or man? [Acts 4:18f/5:29] .... be subject to the ordinance that punishes the evil, that doth not punish the good, that doth not go against the command of God, nor of Christ, for it is that power the soul must be subject unto.

(1 Pet 2:13)

RBA 3 (1678): ...not coveting nor contending for the kingdoms of this world, but "subject to every ordinance of man for conscience sake." [Rom 13:5/1 Pet 2:13]

(1 Pet 2:13f)

GF8: 86-90 (1675): [Whole of epistle 319 deals with Friends' relation to laws and magistrates]

IP1:325 (1660): We submit ourselves to the government that is supreme, and to the governors under the supreme, for the Lord's sake, who in their several places ought to be for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of them that do well, according to 1 Pet 2:13-14.... When any magistrates punish us for well-doing, for our obedience to the Lord's spirit, though we know God never gave power to any magistracy to punish therefor; yet we patiently suffer under them [1 Pet 2:20]; referring our cause to him that judgeth righteously [1 Pet 2:23], and waiting on him for strength to carry us through our sufferings for his name's sake [Acts 9:16].

(1 Pet 2:14)

1 Pet 2:14 often cited in tandem with Rom 13:3. E.g., in letters to both Oliver Cromwell (MFU 141, 1655) and Charles II (MFU 355, 1661?), Margaret Fell expresses the hope that they will be "a terror to evildoers and a praise to them that do well" [Rom 13:3/1 Pet 2:14].

[Other texts citing 1 Pet 2:14: GFJN 401 (under Mat 5:11), GF7:178 (Luk 3:14, Rev 13:10), GF8:88 (Mat 22:21)]

GF4:52 (1655): you shall have a crown that is immortal [1 Cor 9:25], that have kept yourselves from persecuting the innocent, and put a difference between the precious and the vile [Jer 15:19]; and to them that do well have been a praise [1 Pet 2:14]; and them that have reproved sin in your gates [Isa 29:21], have not been a prey, but ye have protected them, you have nourished them [Ezek 34:22f]; and the evil-doer hath not been strengthened [Jer 24:13]....

JN1:21 (1653): 6. Concerning magistracy. It is an ordinance of God, ordained "for the punishment of evildoers, and an encouragement for them that do well" [1 Pet 2:14]; where justice and righteousness is the head and ruleth without partiality, that land is kept in peace; and those that judge for the Lord [2 Chr 19:6], I honor as my own life....

WPR 471 (1678): If any should ask me, What are the things properly belonging to Caesar [Mat 22:21]? I answer in Scripture language, To love justice, do judgment, relieve the oppressed, right the fatherless [Isa 1:17], be a terror to evil-doers [Rom 13:3], and a praise to them that do well [1 Pet 2:14]; for this is the great end of magistracy.

(1 Pet 2:15)

GF6:173f: [1 Pet 2:15, see under Heb 10:36 ]

(1 Pet 2:16)

JN2:265 (1655): [list of Thomas Moore's lies about Quakers] 24. That we use Christ in us, and the light, as a cloak of maliciousness and pride [1 Pet 2:16].

(1 Pet 2:17)

[Other texts citing 1 Pet 2:17: GF3:81 (under Jas 2:9), JN2:101 (Luk 13:32)]

GF4:208-215 (1660) [commentary on 1 Pet 2:17: its commands are not multiple choice]

GF4:210 (1660): And all ye cozeners, cheaters, [etc.], you live not in God's fear, therefore you cannot honour the king; for they who honour the king, must fear God, as ye may read, 1 Pet 2.17.

GF4:339 (1668): how can they say they esteem the king, or esteem any man, if they persecute him? and so as all true christians are brethren in Christ Jesus, they are to love the brotherhood, and so keep the law and command of Christ; and one christian persecuting another about religion and worship, is not to love the brotherhood.

GF7:68 (1656): "Honouring all men" [1 Pet 2:17], is reaching that of God in every man, for that brings to seek the honour of God [John 5:44];

IP3: 471 (1671): As for what he writes concerning fearing God and the king [1 Pet 2:17]; that God is to be feared first, and then the king; and if God command one thing, and the king the contrary, God is to be preferred, and the king is to be obeyed passively, when he cannot actively; in these things I fully assent unto him....

WPR 510 (1693): They honour all men [1 Pet 2:17] in the Lord, but not in the spirit and fashions of this world that pass away....

(1 Pet 2:20)

IP1:325: [1 Pet 2:20, see under 1 Pet 2:13f]

(1 Pet 2:21)

[Other texts citing 1 Pet 2:21: MFU 191 (under Heb 2:10) , WPR 142 (John 2:4), JSS 58 (Luk 9:23)]

WPR 639 (17-?): Indeed his [Christ's] whole life was one continued great act of self-denial: and because he needed it not for himself, he must needs do it for us; thereby leaving us an example, that we should follow in his steps, 1 Pet 2:21.

JSS 53 (17-): Christ has not conquered to excuse us, but that we should follow his steps [1 Pet 2:21]; and has shown us, that as certainly as he has over come, we shall overcome too, if we fight valiantly under him, the captain of our salvation [Heb 2:10].

(1 Pet 2:21f) GFEJ 414; JN1: 191; JN3: 725 (RR)

(1 Pet 2:22) GFJN 603; GF3: 268; GF5: 335; GF6: 28, 97; GF7: 44f [37], 81f [71], 118f [123], 154f [166], 168 [176], 176f [187], 185 [194], 225 [221], 231f [222], 241 [226, 227], 246f+ [232], 258 [236], 310 [259]; GF8: 14 [268], 164 [357], 181f [361], 199 [369], 228 [382], 247 [391]; IP2: 116, 228; RBA 174, 182; RBAF 132, 140

(1 Pet 2:23) GF5: 214; GF8: 143 [345], 143 [346], 199 [369], 279 [401]; GFEJ 359; WDS 309; IP1: 325; WPT 165

(1 Pet 2:24) GF3: 268; GF5: 446; GF8: 182 [361]; JN1: 191; JN2: 221, 453, 551, 565f; IP3: 342; RBA 123, 173f; RBAF 88, 132; WPR 621; WPT 312

(1 Pet 2:25) GFJN 14, 109, 152, 272, 288, 603; GF3: 5f (EB), 58, 80f, 134, 167, 181, 212, 306, 369, 373, 528, etc; GF4: 60, 205, 220; GF6: 94, 245, 485; GF7: 45[37], 77 [63]; GF8: 26 [279], 34 [284], 37 [288], 50 [300], 54 [304], 78 [316], 85 [318], 150, 153 [352], 199 [369], 200 [370], 233 [285], 247 [391], 251 [393], 254 [396], 290 [403], 293 [206]; GFEJ 427; LB (C18, C94); MFU 53, 376; JN1: 109, 211 (GF), 377; JN2: 437; IPL 67; IP1: 101; IP3: 31, 63, 211, 261, 334, 408, 416, 445, 492, 516; IP4: 138, 257, 347; EQ 87; HPS 135; 395 (EB), 455 (MF); WPR 163; SIW 45, 160

(1 Pet 2:22)

[Other texts citing 1 Pet 2:22: GF5:335 (Heb 7:26), GF7:81 (Heb 13:8), GF7:168 (Luk 1:2), GF8:181 (Mat 20:18f), IP2:228 (under 1 Pet 1:19)]

GF (many places): Christ that never fell [1 Pet 2:22 (Arthur Windsor's identification).

IP2:116 (1660): ...though a perfect state may be attained in the perfect gift [Jas 1:17], yet there is a growth in the perfection (for Christ who was perfect, and in whom there was no guile [1 Pet 2:22], grew in wisdom, and knowledge, and favor with God and men [Luke 2:52]).

(1 Pet 2:23)

[Other texts citing 1 Pet 2:23: GF5:214 (Mat 27:28-30), GF8:143 (Mat 5:44) , WDS 309 (Jas 1:4), IP1:325 (1 Pet 2:13f)]

(1 Pet 2:24)

JN2: 453 (1655): And thou tellest of Christ bearing your sins in his body to the tree [1 Pet 2:24], not leaving them to be borne in your bodies. I say, didst thou mind his light and faithful witness in thee (which thou preachest against), thereby thou mightest see thy sins not nailed to the tree....

IP3: 342 (1675): Yea, I heard one of the ancients of them [Quakers] thus testify, in a public meeting many years since, That if Christ had not come in the flesh, in the fulness of time [Gal 4:4], to bear our sins in his own body on the tree [1 Pet 2:24], and to offer himself up a sacrifice for all mankind [Heb 7:27], all mankind had utterly perished.

(1 Pet 2:25)

[Other texts citing Heb 2:25: GF3:373 (under Luk 1:79), GF3:528 (Gen 2:7), GF6:485 (Heb 9:11), GF8:150f (John 10:28f), IP3:492 (John 10:3), HPS 395 (Rev 5:5), SIW 45 (Luk 9:62)]

GFJN 14: hope ... anchored my immortal soul to its Bishop [Heb 6:19/1 Pet 2:25; more under Heb 6:19]

JN2: 437 (1655): And many are inclining to the voice of the shepherd of their souls. [John 10:3,27/1 Pet 2:25]

SIW 160 (Ann Crowley, 18-?)): ...the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the great Minister of ministers, and Bishop of souls

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