1 Peter 1:22-24 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Peter 1:13-23

Here the apostle begins his exhortations to those whose glorious state he had before described, thereby instructing us that Christianity is a doctrine according to godliness, designed to make us not only wiser, but better. I. He exhorts them to sobriety and holiness. 1. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, etc., 1 Pet. 1:13. As if he had said, ?Wherefore, since you are so honoured and distinguished, as above, Gird up the loins of your mind. You have a journey to go, a race to run, a... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Peter 1:24-25

The apostle having given an account of the excellency of the renewed spiritual man as born again, not of corruptible but incorruptible seed, he now sets before us the vanity of the natural man, taking him with all his ornaments and advantages about him: For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass; and nothing can make him a solid substantial being, but the being born again of the incorruptible seed, the word of God, which will transform him into a most excellent... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 1:14-25

1:14-25 Be obedient children. Do not continue to live a life which matches the desires of the days of your former ignorance, but show yourselves holy in all your conduct of life as he who called you is holy, because it stands written: "You must be holy, because I am holy." If you address as Father him who judges each man according to his work with complete impartiality, conduct yourselves with reverence throughout the time of your sojourn in this world; for you know that it was not by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 1:22

Seeing ye have purified your souls ,.... The apostle passes to another exhortation, namely, to brotherly love; the ground of which he makes to be, the purification of their souls; and which supposes that they had been impure; and indeed, their whole persons, souls and bodies, were so by nature; even all the members of their bodies, and all the powers and faculties of their souls: it is internal purity, purity of the heart, that is here particularly respected; though not to the exclusion of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 1:23

Being born again ,.... As they were of God, according to his abundant mercy, by the resurrection of Christ, to a lively hope of a glorious inheritance; as in 1 Peter 1:3 and therefore seeing they were brethren in a spiritual relation, they ought to love as brethren; being children of the same Father, belonging to the same family and household, having the same spirit, and the same nature and disposition, and being members one of another, and heirs of the same grace and glory; and not only... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 1:24

All men, as born of corruptible seed, are frail, mortal, and perishing; they spring up like grass, and look beautiful for a while, but are very weak and tender, and in a little time they are cut down by death, and wither away; and while they live, are, in a good measure, nothing but grass in another form; the substance of their life is greatly by it; what is the flesh they eat, but grass turned into it? and this mortality is not only the case of wicked men, as the Jews F12 Targum, Jarchi,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 1:22

Seeing ye have purified your souls - Having purified your souls, in obeying the truth - by believing in Christ Jesus, through the influence and teaching of the Spirit; and giving full proof of it by unfeigned love to the brethren; ye love one another, or ye will love each other, with a pure heart fervently. These persons, First, heard the truth, that is, the Gospel; thus called in a great variety of places in the New Testament, because it contains The truth without mixture of error, and is... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 1:23

Being born again - For being born of Abraham's seed will not avail to the entering of the kingdom of heaven. Not of corruptible seed - By no human generation, or earthly means; but of incorruptible - a Divine and heavenly principle which is not liable to decay, nor to be affected by the changes and chances to which all sublunary things are exposed. By the word of God - Δια λογου ζωντος Θεου· By the doctrine of the living God, which remaineth for ever; which doctrine shall never... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 1:24

For all flesh is as grass - Earthly seeds, earthly productions, and earthly generations, shall fail and perish like as the grass and flowers of the field; for the grass withereth, and the flower falleth off, though, in the ensuing spring and summer, they may put forth new verdure and bloom. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 1:22

Verse 22 22Seeing ye have purified your souls, or, Purifying your souls. Erasmus badly renders the words, “Who have purified,” etc. For Peter does not declare what they had done, but reminds them of what they ought to do. The participle is indeed in the past tense, but it may be rendered as a gerund, “By purifying, etc. ” The meaning is, that their souls would not be capable of receiving grace until they were purified, and by this our uncleanness is proved. (17) But that he might not seem to... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Peter 1:13-23

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Peter 1:24-25

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 1:14-25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 1:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 1:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 1:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 1:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 1:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 1:24

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Peter 1:22

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