1 Peter 1:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

1 Peter 1:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 6:22
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
James 1:21
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 6-9)

The first word, wherein, refers to the apostle’s foregoing discourse about the excellency of their present state, and their grand expectations for the future. “In this condition you greatly rejoice, though now for a season, or a little while, if need be, you are made sorrowful through manifold temptations,” 1 Pet. 1:6. I. The apostle grants they were in great affliction, and propounds several thin…

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

(vv. 9)

9. Receiving--in sure anticipation; “the end of your faith,” that is, its crowning consummation, finally completed “salvation” (Peter here confirms Paul’s teaching as to justification by faith): also receiving now the title to it and the first-fruits of it. In 1Pe 1:10 the “salvation” is represented as already present, whereas “the prophets” had it not as yet present. It must, therefore, in this v…