1 Peter 1:4
in respect to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for us,
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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Matthew 25:34Then the King will say to those on his right hand: Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Acts 26:18in order to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among the sanctified, by faith in me.
1 Corinthians 9:25Every combatant in the public games is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may obtain a corruptible, but we, that we may obtain an incorruptible crown.
Galatians 3:18For if the inheritance be by law, it is no longer by promise: but God bestowed it on Abraham by promise.
Ephesians 1:14which is the earnest of our inheritance, given for the redemption of his possession to the praise of his glory.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 1:4-6
Privileges of Christians. ( a. d. 66.) 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 from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. We come now to the body of the epistle, which begins with, I. A congratulation of… Read the whole commentary →