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21Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

1 Peter 1:21

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

  • But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

  • Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me.

  • Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

  • This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. …

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 dist…

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