1 Peter 1:17
and if you call on the Father, who is judging without favoritism according to the work of each, pass the time of your sojourn in fear,
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16because it has been written: “Become holy, because I am holy”;
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob says to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojournings [are] one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.”
1 Chronicles 29:15for we [are] sojourners and settlers before You, like all our fathers; our days on the land [are] as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Job 34:19That has not accepted the person of princes, || Nor has known the rich before the poor, || For all of them [are] a work of His hands.
Proverbs 14:16The wise is fearing and turning from evil, || And a fool is transgressing and is confident.
Jeremiah 3:19And I have said, How do I put you among the sons, || And give a desirable land to you, || A beautiful inheritance of the hosts of nations, || And I say, You call Me—My Father, || And you do not turn back from after Me.
Matthew 6:9therefore pray thus: Our Father who [is] in the heavens, hallowed be Your Name.
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 →