1 Peter 1:4
unto an incorruptible and undefiled and unfading inheritance, which is reserved for you in heaven.
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Isaiah 40:7The grass has dried up, and the flower has fallen. For the Spirit of the Lord has blown over it. Truly, the people are like grass.
Matthew 25:34Then the King shall say to those who will be on his right: ‘Come, you blessed of my Father. Possess the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Acts 26:18in order to open their eyes, so that they may be converted from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive the remission of sins and a place among the saints, through the faith that is in me.’
1 Corinthians 9:25And one who competes in a contest abstains from all things. And they do this, of course, so that they may achieve a corruptible crown. But we do this, so that we may achieve what is incorruptible.
Galatians 3:18For if the inheritance is of the law, then it is no longer of the promise. But God bestowed it to Abraham through the promise.
Ephesians 1:14He is the pledge of our inheritance, unto the acquisition of redemption, 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 →