1 Peter 1:17
Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay as foreigners.
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In Context
16for it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.”
Cross References
Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
1 Chronicles 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
Job 34:19who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.
Proverbs 14:16A wise man fears and turns from evil, but a fool is careless and reckless.
Jeremiah 3:19Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
Matthew 6:9So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, 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 →