1 Peter 5:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.

1 Peter 5:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 12:12
And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.
Psalms 87:4
I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
Acts 12:25
And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark.
Revelation 17:5
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
2 John 1:13
The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.

Commentary

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

(vv. 10-14)

We come now to the conclusion of this epistle, which, I. The apostle begins with a most weighty prayer, which he addresses to God as the God of all grace, the author and finisher of every heavenly gift and quality, acknowledging, on their behalf, that God had already called them to be partakers of that eternal glory, which, being his own, he had promised and settled upon them, through the merit an…

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

(vv. 13)

13. The ... at Babylon--Alford, Bengel, and others translate, “She that is elected together with you in Babylon,” namely, Peter’s wife, whom he led about with him in his missionary journeys. Compare 1Pe 3:7, “heirs together of the grace of life.” But why she should be called “elected together with you in Babylon,” as if there had been no Christian woman in Babylon besides, is inexplicable on this…