Exhortation to A. D. about 60. 1 Or, reverence. b Heb. 13. 18. I. PETER. ways to give an answer to every 16 b Having a good conscience; d Rom. 5. 6. Heb. 9. 26, 28. ch. 2. 21. & 4. 1. 2 Cor. 13. 4. $ Rom. 1. 4. & 8. 11. e 19 By which also he went and h ch. 1. 12. &h preached unto the spirits iin 4.6. i Is. 42. 7. & 49.9. & 61. 1. 13. prison; 20 Which sometime were dis* Gen. 6. 3, 5, obedient, k when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, mwherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 1 Heb. 11. 7. m Gen. 7.7. & 8. 18. 2 Pet. 2. 5. n Eph. 5. 26. • Tit. 3. 5. 4 ch. 1.3. r Ps. 110. 1. Rom. 8. 34. Eph. 1. 20. Col. 3. 1. Heb. 1.3. Rom. 8. 38. 21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, Pbut the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: 22 Who is gone into heaven, and ris on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and 1. 15.24 powers being made subject unto him. Eph. 1. 21. cease from sir; 10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same Prov. 10.1 one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth; that y God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ: to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning á the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as eye are partakers of Christ's suf ferings; dthat, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 14 e If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: fon their part he is evil spoken of, but on your Fts suffered for us in the part he is glorified. flesh, arm yourselves likewise b Rom. 6.2,7. With the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; 1 Cor. 124 Eph. 4. 11. u Jer. 23. 22. y Rom. 12. 7.8. Eph. 5. 20. ch. 2. 5. 21 Tim. 6. 165 Rev. 1. 6. a1 Cor. 3. 13 1 ch. 1. 7. Acts 5. 41. James 1. 2. Rom. 8. 17 2 Cor. 1. 7. 2 4.10. Phil. 3. 10. Col. 1. 24. 2 Tim. 2. 12. ch. 5. 1, 10. Rev. 1. 9. d ch. 1. 5, 6. Matt. 5. 11.. 2 Cor. 12. 100 James 1. 129 ch. 2. 19, 20. & 3. 14. 17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the k Is. 10. 12. house of God: and if it first begin at us, m what shall the end be of them that obey not the gos-1 Luke 23. 311 pel of God? 18 n And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Jer. 25. 29. &2 m Luke 10.129 14. n Prov. 11. 31 Luke 23. 31.. The apostle exhorteth A. D. ''about 60. 1 Ps.31. 5. Luke 23. 46. Tim. 1. 12. Philem. 9. [Luke 24. 48. Acts 1. 8, 22. 2 & 5.32. & 10. $39. Rom. 8. 17, 118. Rev. 1. 9. John 21. 15, 116, 17. A Acts 20. 28. ) Or, as much as Ain you is. I 1 Cor. 9. 17. 11 Tim. 3.3,8. I Tit. 1. 7. ) Or, verruling. Ez. 34. 4. Matt. 20, 25, 926, Il Cor. 3. 9. $2 Cor. 1. 24. IPs. 33. 12. & 174. 2. IPhil. 3. 17. II. PETER. 19 Wherefore, let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator. CHAPTER V. 1 He exhorteth the elders to feed their flocks, 5 the younger to obey, 8 and all to be sober, watchful, and constant in the faith: 9 to resist the cruel adversary the devil. HE elders which are among you I exhort, who am also a an elder, and ba witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: 2 d Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; fnot for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; 3 Neither as I being lords over h God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. 4. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall re2 Thess. 3. 9. ceive la crown of glory m that fadeth not away. 11 Tim. 4. 12. ITit. 2. 7. Heb. 13. 20. I Cor. 9. 25. $2 Tim. 4. 8. James 1. 12. ch. 1. 4. 5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, n all of you be subject one to Rom. 12. 10. another, and be clothed with humility for God resisteth the proud, and P giveth grace to the humble. HEph. 5. 21. Is. 57. 15. & 366.2. James 4.10. 6 Humble yourselves therefore to several duties. 55.22. Phil. 4. 6. s Luke 21. 34, 36. 1 Thess. 5. 6. ch. 4.7. t Job 1.7. & 2.2. Luke 22. 31. Rev. 12. 12. "Eph. 6,11,13 James 4. 7. Acts 14. 22. 1 Thess. 3. 3. 2 Tim. 3. 12. ch. 2. 21. I Cor. 1.9. 1 Tim. 6. 12. z 2 Cor. 4. 17. ch. 1. 6. 10 But the God of all grace, y who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered za while, a make you perfect, Þstablish, strengthen, settle you. 11 To him be glory and domin- "Heb. 13. 21. ion for ever and ever. Amen. 12 d By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand. 13 The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth cus my son. Peter exhorteth to constancy. A. D. 66. il Pet. 3. 7. k Gal. 6. 10. 1 John 4. 21. † Gr. idle. 1 John 15. 2. Tit. 3. 14. tue; and to virtue, A. D. 6 John 5. 35 II. PETER. He foretelleth of false teacher knowl-ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the daystar arise in your hearts: 20 Knowing this first, that eno prophecy of the Scripture is of Rom. 12 any private interpretation. 6 And to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godli ness; 7 And to godliness, brotherly kindness; and kto brotherly kindness, charity. 21 For the prophecy came not 9 But he that lacketh these m 1 John 2.9, things mis blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was n purged from his old 11. n Eph. 5. 26. Heb. 9. 14. 1 John 1. 7. sins. 10 Wherefore the rather, breth 01 Jolin 3. 19. ren, give diligence to make P ch. 3. 17. q Rom. 15. 14, 1 John 2. 21. r1 Pet. 5. 12. ch. 3. 17. $2 Cor. 5.1, 4. t ch. 3. 1. "See Deut. 4. 21, 22. & 31. 14. 11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, r though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. 13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, tto stir you up by putting you in remembrance; 14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath John 21. 18. shewed me. CHAPTER II. 4,6. f 2 Tim. 3. 1 Pet. 1. 1 1 He foretelleth them of false teachers, shew- Acts 20, 30 1 Cor. 11.1 Tim. 4. 1 2 Tim. 3. 1 1 John 4.1 Jude 18. e Jude 4. d 1 Cor. 6. Gal. 3. 13. ch. 1. 16. h Deut. 32.3 Jude 4, 15 Job 4. 18. 4 For if God spared not the 2 Cor. 2. 1 angels that sinned, but 1 cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved m Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 And Pturning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an sample unto those that after should live ungodly; r en Jude 6. k John 8.44 1 John 3.8 Luke 8. 31 m Gen. 7. 1, Rev. 20. 2, 23. 1 Pet. 3. 1 ch. 3. 6. P Gen. 19. 2 Num. 26. 1 7 And delivered just Lot, vexedr Gen. 19. 16 with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 158. 8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, sin seeing and Ps. 119. 13 hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds:) 9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of tempta Ez. 9. 4. Ps. 34, 17, 1 Cor. 10. 1 19. The day of the A. D. 66. P Rom. 2.4. 1 Tim. 2.4. 9 Matt. 24. 43. Luke 12. 39. 1 Thess. 5. 2. 16. 15. A. D. 66 willing that any should perish, diligent that ye may be found 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in Rev. 3. 3. & the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent Mark 13.31. heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. r Ps. 102. 26. 1s. 51. 6. Matt. 24. 35. Rom. 8. 12. Heb. 1. 11. Rev. 20. 11. & 21. 1. $ 1 Pet. 1. 15. t1 Cor. 1. 7. Tit. 2. 13. Or, hasting 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be sin all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of the coming. God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? u Ps. 50. 3. Is. 34. 4. x Mic. 1. 4. ver. 10. and blameless. 15 And account that a the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; 1 Cor. 15.2 1 Thess. 4 15. 16 As also in all his epistles, b speaking in them of these b Rom. 8. 1 things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction. 17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness. 18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen. Mark 13.23 ch. 1. 12. Eph. 4. 14 ch. 1. 10, 11 & 2. 18. Eph. 4. 152 1 Pet. 2.2. f2 Tim. 4. 10 Rev. 1. 6. 6 If we say that we have fel- 2 Cor. 6. 11 lowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and P the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, rand the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to t cleanse us from all unrighteousness. P1 Cor. 6. I Eph. 1. 7. Heb. 9. 14. 1 Pet. 1.19 ch. 2. 2. Rev. 1. 5. 41 Kings 8.8 46. 2 Chr. 6.36 Job 9. 2. & 15. 14. & 24S 4. Prov. 20, 2 Erc. 7. 20. James 3.2 T ch..2.4. Prov. 28. I 10 If we say that we have not Ps. 32. 5. sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. t Ps. 51. 2. ver. 7. |