1 Peter 1:2 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Peter 1:2

This is no mere Jewish title, for there are passages in the Epistle which forbid the idea that it was addressed exclusively to Jews ( 1 Peter 1:18 ; 1 Peter 2:10 ; 1 Peter 4:3 , 1 Peter 4:4 ). It is the title of the universal Church and the individual believer. The verse is a summary of the most important and difficult points of Christian doctrine; hardly a word in it but is inexhaustible. I. THE FACT OF DIVINE ELECTION STATED . Perhaps no greater mystery in Scripture,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Peter 1:2

Elect - That is, “chosen.” The meaning here is, that they were in fact chosen. The word does not refer to the purpose to choose, but to the fact that they were chosen or selected by God as His people. It is a word commonly applied to the people of God as being chosen out of the world, and called to be His. The use of the word does not determine whether God had a previous eternal purpose to choose them or not. That must be determined by something else than the mere use of the term. This word has... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Peter 1:2

1 Peter 1:2. Elect Called out of the world, and from a state of ignorance and sin, guilt and depravity, weakness and wretchedness, by the word, the Spirit, and providence of God; and in consequence of obeying the call, by turning to God in true repentance, living faith, and new obedience, chosen Or accepted of God. For all true believers, or genuine Christians, whose faith works by love, have continually the title of God’s elect in the New Testament. See notes on Romans 8:28; Romans... read more

Donald C. Fleming

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

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Peter 1:2

Elect . Read before "strangers". See 1 Peter 1:1 . according to . App-104 . foreknowledge . See Acts 2:23 . God . App-98 . Father . App-98 . through . App-104 . sanctification, &c . See 2 Thessalonians 2:13 . Spirit . App-101 . sprinkling . See Hebrews 12:24 . blood . Figure of speech Metalepsis. App-6 . Blood put for death, and death for the redemption it brings. Grace . App-184 . unto = to. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Peter 1:2

1 Peter 1:2. Elect according to the foreknowledge, &c.— Dr. Heylin reads this verse, Whom God the Father, according to his foreknowledge, has elected and sanctified by the Spirit, that they should obey Jesus Christ, and be sprinkled with his blood. And he observes, that as the Christian church succeeded to the Jewish, it has the same titles of elect and sanctified; that is, consecrated to God, being separated from the rest of the world by the peculiar illumination of the Holy Spirit. The... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 1 Peter 1:2

2. foreknowledge—foreordaining love (1 Peter 1:20), inseparable from God's foreknowledge, the origin from which, and pattern according to which, election takes place. Acts 2:23; Romans 11:2, prove "foreknowledge" to be foreordination. God's foreknowledge is not the perception of any ground of action out of Himself; still in it liberty is comprehended, and all absolute constraint debarred [ANSELM in STEIGER]. For so the Son of God was "foreknown" (so the Greek for "foreordained," 1 Peter 1:20)... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Peter 1:1-2

I. INTRODUCTION 1:1-2Peter began this epistle in the manner that was customary in his day. [Note: See Philip L. Tite, "The Compositional Function of the Petrine Prescript: A Look at 1 Peter 1:1-3," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 39:1 (March 1996):47-56.] He introduced himself and his original readers, and he wished God’s blessing on them to prepare them for what he had to say. He prepared them for dealing with trials by reminding them of who they were, what they had, and where... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Peter 1:2

Election originates in the eternal will and purpose of God the Father. The foreknowledge (Gr. prognosin; cf. Acts 2:23) of God refers, of course, to what God knows beforehand. God’s foreknowledge has an element of determinism in it because whatever really happens that God knows beforehand exists or takes place because of His sovereign will. Therefore when Peter wrote that God chose according to His foreknowledge he did not mean that God chose the elect because He knew beforehand they would... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - 1 Peter 1:2

1:2 sanctification (f-11) Hagiasmos , see Note i, Romans 1:4 . blood (g-22) 'Jesus Christ' is connected with 'obedience,' as well as with 'sprinkling of the blood.' read more