1 Peter 1:22

Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

21Who through him are faithful in God, who raised him up from the dead, and hath given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

23Being born again not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever.

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Cross References

John 15:3dummy verses inserted by amos

John 17:17Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.

Acts 6:7And the word of the Lord increased; and the number of the disciples was multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly: a great multitude also of the priests obeyed the faith.

Romans 1:5By whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to the faith, in all nations, for his name;

Romans 6:16Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto justice.

Romans 12:9Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good.

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 1:14-24

Sobriety and Holiness; Exhortation to Brotherly Love. ( a. d. 66.) 13 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; 14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: 15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. 17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of… Read the whole commentary →

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