1 Peter 2:25

For you were like sheep that had gone astray; but now you have returned to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

In Context

24He himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. By his stripes you were healed.

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Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 2:14-25

Submission to Magistrates; Various Exhortations; Christ's Example as a Sufferer. ( a. d. 66.) 13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 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. 15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: 16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the… Read the whole commentary →

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