Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 1:1-12
1:1-2:10 HIGH STATUS FOR GOD’S PEOPLEThe character of salvation (1:1-12)Peter’s readers are ‘God’s scattered people’, an expression that Peter uses with a wide meaning. In relation to their place of local residence, they are God’s people scattered throughout northern Asia Minor. But in relation to heaven, they are God’s people scattered in a foreign land. Their true homeland is heaven, and the foreign land is the world. They really belong to God. He chose them and cleansed them, with the aim... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Peter 1:3-4
1 Peter 1:3-4. Blessed be the God and Father, or, God even the Father, of our Lord Jesus Christ His only-begotten and beloved Son; who, according to his abundant mercy His compassion for us in our state of ignorance and guilt, depravity and weakness; his undeserved love and goodness, the source of all our blessings, temporal, spiritual, and eternal: hath begotten us again Regenerated us; to a lively Ζωσαν , living, hope A hope which implies true spiritual life, is the consequence... read more