1 Peter 1:4
This is for an inheritance that will not perish, will not become stained, and will not fade away. It is reserved in heaven for you.
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Isaiah 40:7The grass withers and the flower wilts when the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely humanity is grass. 1
Matthew 25:34Then the King will say to those on his right hand, 'Come, you who have been blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Acts 26:18to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive from God the forgiveness of sins and the inheritance that I give to them who are sanctified by faith in me.'
1 Corinthians 9:25Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a wreath that is perishable, but we do it to receive one that is imperishable.
Galatians 3:18For if the inheritance comes by the law, then it no longer comes by promise. But God gave it to Abraham by a promise.
Ephesians 1:14who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we take full possession of it, 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 →