Bible Software Engineering http://www.BibleBookStudies.com

Fill out for free KJV Bible e-Book & News from eBibleProductions.com about using today's technology to spread God's Word. Your e-mail address will be kept absolutely confidential and we promise it will not be shared with any other party.

Your source for over a 1000 gigabytes of Bible Studies.

Check out some Bible Audio and Video Study Products using the latest technology to improve your study time.

ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

as the waters cover the sea.

Copyright (c) 1985-2007

king james study

11 Peter an apostle of Jesus Christ to the strangers scattered

throughout Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bithynia .

12 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 .

13 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 .

14 To an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that

fadeth not away reserved in heaven for you .

15 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto

salvation ready to be revealed in the last time .

16 Wherein ye greatly rejoice though now for a season if need

be ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations .

17 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 honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus

Christ .

18 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 .

19 Receiving the end of your faith even the salvation of your

souls .

110 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched

diligently who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you

111 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 .

112 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 .

113 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 .

114 As obedient children not fashioning yourselves according to

the former lusts in your ignorance .

115 But as he which hath called you is holy so be ye holy in

all manner of conversation .

116 Because it is written Be ye holy for I am holy .

117 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 .

118 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 .

119 But with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without

blemish and without spot .

120 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the

world but was manifest in these last times for you .

121 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

122 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 .

123 Being born again not of corruptible seed but of

incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abideth for

ever .

124 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 .

125 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever And this is the

word which by the gospel is preached unto you .

* 21 Wherefore laying aside all malice and all guile and

hypocrisies and envies and all evil speakings .

22 As newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the word that ye

may grow thereby .

23 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious .

24 To whom coming as unto a living stone disallowed indeed of

men but chosen of God and precious .

25 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 .

26 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 .

27 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 .

28 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 .

29 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 marvellous

light .

210 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 .

211 Dearly beloved I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims

abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul .

212 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 .

213 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's

sake whether it be to the king as supreme .

214 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 .

215 For so is the will of God that with well doing ye may put

to silence the ignorance of foolish men .

216 As free and not using your liberty for a cloke of

maliciousness but as the servants of God .

217 Honour all men Love the brotherhood Fear God Honour the

king .

218 Servants be subject to your masters with all fear not only

to the good and gentle but also to the froward .

219 For this is thankworthy if a man for conscience toward God

endure grief suffering wrongfully .

220 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 .

221 For even hereunto were ye called because Christ also

suffered for us leaving us an example that ye should follow his

steps .

222 Who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth .

223 Who when he was reviled reviled not again when he suffered

he threatened not but committed himself to him that judgeth

righteously .

224 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 .

225 For ye were as sheep going astray but are now returned unto

the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls .

* 31 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 .

32 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear

33 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of

plaiting the hair and of wearing of gold or of putting on of

apparel .

34 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 .

35 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 .

36 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 .

37 Likewise ye husbands dwell with them according to knowledge

giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel and as

being heirs together of the grace of life that your prayers be

not hindered .

38 Finally be ye all of one mind having compassion one of

another love as brethren be pitiful be courteous .

39 Not rendering evil for evil or railing for railing but

contrariwise blessing knowing that ye are thereunto called that

ye should inherit a blessing .

310 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 .

311 Let him eschew evil and do good let him seek peace and

ensue it .

312 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 .

313 And who is he that will harm you if ye be followers of that

which is good .

314 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake happy are ye

and be not afraid of their terror neither be troubled .

315 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 .

316 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 .

317 For it is better if the will of God be so that ye suffer

for well doing than for evil doing .

318 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 .

319 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in

prison .

320 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 .

321 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 .

322 Who is gone into heaven and is on the right hand of God

angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him .

* 41 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 .

42 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 .

43 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 .

44 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to

the same excess of riot speaking evil of you .

45 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the

quick and the dead .

46 For 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 .

47 But the end of all things is at hand be ye therefore sober

and watch unto prayer .

48 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves

for charity shall cover the multitude of sins .

49 Use hospitality one to another without grudging .

410 As every man hath received the gift even so minister the

same one to another as good stewards of the manifold grace of

God .

411 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 .

412 Beloved think it not strange concerning the fiery trial

which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto

you .

413 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 .

414 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 .

415 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 .

416 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian let him not be ashamed

but let him glorify God on this behalf .

417 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 .

418 And if the righteous scarcely be saved where shall the

ungodly and the sinner appear .

419 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 .

* 51 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 .

52 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 .

53 Neither as being lords over God's heritage but being

ensamples to the flock .

54 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear ye shall receive a

crown of glory that fadeth not away .

55 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 .

56 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God

that he may exalt you in due time .

57 Casting all your care upon him for he careth for you .

58 Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a

roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour .

59 Whom resist stedfast in the faith knowing that the same

afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the

world .

510 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 .

511 To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever Amen .

512 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 .

513 The church that is at Babylon elected together with you

saluteth you and so doth Marcus my son .

514 Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity Peace be with

you all that are in Christ Jesus Amen .