1 Peter 1:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

1 Peter 1:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 1:4
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
2 Timothy 1:9-10
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, …
Hebrews 9:26
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Revelation 13:8
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Titus 1:2-3
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; …

Topics

Atonement Blood Chosen, or Elected Contingencies Decrees, Divine Election Expiation Foreordination

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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 distin…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. God’s eternal foreordination of Christ’s redeeming sacrifice, and completion of it in these last times for us, are an additional obligation on us to our maintaining a holy walk, considering how great things have been thus done for us. Peter’s language in the history corresponds with this here: an undesigned coincidence and mark of genuineness. Redemption was no afterthought, or remedy of an un…