1 Peter 1:9

that ye may receive the recompense of your faith, the life of your souls;

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

In Context

8whom having not seen, ye love; and in the faith of whom ye rejoice, with joy that is glorious and ineffable,

10that life namely, about which the prophets inquired, when they were prophesying of the grace which was to be given to you.

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Cross References

Hebrews 11:13All these died in faith, and received not their promise; but they saw it afar off, and rejoiced in it; and they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 1:7-10

Privileges of Christians. ( a. d. 66.) 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 9 Receiving the end of your… Read the whole commentary →

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