1 Peter 1:4
to an incorruptible inheritance, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved for you in the heavens,
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Isaiah 40:7Grass has withered, the flower faded, || For the Spirit of YHWH blew on it, || Surely the people [is] grass;
Matthew 25:34Then the King will say to those on His right hand, Come, the blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom that has been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
Acts 26:18to open their eyes, to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the authority of Satan to God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified by faith that [is] toward Me.
1 Corinthians 9:25and everyone who is striving is temperate in all things; these, indeed, then, that they may receive a corruptible garland, but we an incorruptible;
Galatians 3:18for if the inheritance [is] by law, [it is] no longer by promise, but God granted [it] to Abraham through promise.
Ephesians 1:14which is a deposit of our inheritance, to the redemption of the acquired 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 →