{"product_id":"2940149089529","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 67: 1 Peter","description":"THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PETER THE APOSTLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first Epistle of St. Peter, though brief, contains much doctrine\u003cbr\u003econcerning Faith, Hope, and Charity, with divers instructions to all\u003cbr\u003epersons of what state or condition soever.  The Apostle commands\u003cbr\u003esubmission to rulers and superiors and exhorts all to the practice of a\u003cbr\u003evirtuous life in imitation, of Christ. This Epistle is written with such\u003cbr\u003eapostolical dignity as to manifest the supreme authority with which its\u003cbr\u003ewriter, the Prince of the Apostles, had been vested by his Lord and\u003cbr\u003eMaster, Jesus Christ. He wrote it at Rome, which figuratively he calls\u003cbr\u003eBabylon, about fifteen years after our Lord's Ascension.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Peter Chapter 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe gives thanks to God for the benefit of our being called to the true\u003cbr\u003efaith and to eternal life, into which we are to enter by many\u003cbr\u003etribulations. He exhorts to holiness of life, considering the holiness\u003cbr\u003eof God and our redemption by the blood of Christ.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:1. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers dispersed\u003cbr\u003ethrough Pontus, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, elect,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:2. According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the\u003cbr\u003esanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood\u003cbr\u003eof Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who\u003cbr\u003eaccording to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by\u003cbr\u003ethe resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:4. Unto an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled and that cannot\u003cbr\u003efade, reserved in heaven for you,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:5. Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready\u003cbr\u003eto be revealed in the last time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:6. Wherein you shalt greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little\u003cbr\u003etime made sorrowful in divers temptations:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:7. That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which is\u003cbr\u003etried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the\u003cbr\u003eappearing of Jesus Christ.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:8. Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now though you see him\u003cbr\u003enot, you believe and, believing, shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and\u003cbr\u003eglorified;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:9. Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:10. Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and diligently\u003cbr\u003esearched, who prophesied of the grace to come in you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:11. Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them\u003cbr\u003edid signify, when it foretold those sufferings that are in Christ and\u003cbr\u003ethe glories that should follow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:12. To whom it was revealed that, not to themselves but to you, they\u003cbr\u003eministered those things which are now declared to you by them that have\u003cbr\u003epreached the gospel to you: the Holy Ghost being sent down from heaven,\u003cbr\u003eon whom the angels desire to look.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:13. Wherefore, having the loins of your mind girt up, being sober,\u003cbr\u003etrust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of\u003cbr\u003eJesus Christ.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:14. As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former\u003cbr\u003edesires of your ignorance,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:15. But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you\u003cbr\u003ealso in all manner of conversation holy:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:16. Because it is written: You shall be holy, for I am holy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:17. And if you invoke as Father him who, without respect of persons,\u003cbr\u003ejudgeth according to every one's work: converse in fear during the time\u003cbr\u003eof your sojourning here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:18. Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as\u003cbr\u003egold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your\u003cbr\u003efathers:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:19. But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and\u003cbr\u003eundefiled.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:20. Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but\u003cbr\u003emanifested in the last times for you:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:21. Who through him are faithful in God who raised him up from the\u003cbr\u003edead and hath given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:22. Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly\u003cbr\u003elove, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:23. Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by\u003cbr\u003ethe word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:24. For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower\u003cbr\u003eof grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1:25. But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word\u003cbr\u003ewhich by the gospel hath been preached unto you.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lost Leaf Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108933157104,"sku":"2940149089529","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149089529_p0.jpg?v=1763712213","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149089529","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}