Nepsis

Category: 1 Peter

  • 1 Peter 2 6-8

    Therefore it stands
    in scripture:
    Behold, I set a stone, in Zion,
    a cornerstone, chosen and honoured,
    and the one who believes upon him,
    will never ever be disgraced.    1

    So to you who believe – (there is) honour
    but to those are not believing
    (the) stone which the builders rejected
    this one has become the cornerstone    2
    and
    a stone that causes stumbling
    and a rock to fall over    3
    – (they are) the ones who stumble
    (because) they disobey the word
    with the result that is ‘set‘.

    1. Isa 28:16 ↩︎
    2. Psalm 118:22 ↩︎
    3. Isa 8:14 ↩︎

    Take from us,
    O God, all pride and vanity,
    all boasting and self-assertion,
    and give us the true courage that shows itself in gentleness,
    the true wisdom that shows itself in simplicity,
    and the true power that shows itself in modesty.

    Charles Kingsley

  • 1 Peter 2 4-5

    Coming to him,
    a living stone
    by people – rejected
    but by God – chosen, honoured
    and, you yourselves
    as living stones
    are being built up
    a spiritual house
    to be a holy priesthood,
    to offer spiritual sacrifices
    acceptable to God,
    through Jesus Christ.

    O thou, who art the light of the minds that know thee,
    the life of the souls that love thee,
    and the strength of the wills that serve thee;
    help us so to know thee that we may truly love thee;
    so to love thee that we may fully serve thee,
    whom to serve is perfect freedom.
    Amen

  • 1 Peter 2 1-3

    Therefore
    having thrown off
    all evil and
    all deceit1
    and hypocrisies
    and envies and
    all ‘running down’
    as newborn babies
    long for the spiritual, pure2, milk
    so that by it
    you might grow
    toward salvation-
    if you have tasted that the Lord is kind3.

    1. δολον (dolon) ↩︎
    2. αδολον (adolon) ↩︎
    3. χρηστος (chrestos) ↩︎

    God be in head and in my understanding;
    God be in my eyes and in my looking;
    God be in my mouth and in my speaking;
    God be in my heart and in my thinking;
    God be at my end and at my departing.

  • 1 Peter 1 17 -21

    And if you call on the one
    who judges impartially
    according to each person’s work,
    as Father
    conduct yourselves
    in fear
    for the time of your exile,
    for you know that
    not with transitory things
    (even) silver and gold,
    you have been ransomed
    from your worthless conduct
    handed down from your ancestors,
    but by the precious blood –
    as from a lamb,
    without blemish
    and without defect
    – Christ’s,
    (him) having been foreknown
    – before the foundation of the world
    having been made known
    – in these last times,
    for your sake,
    who
    because of him,
    are believing in God
    who raised him from the dead ones,
    and gave him glory,
    so that your faith and hope
    are in God.


    Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
    Naught be all else to me, save that thou art –
    Thou my best thought, by day or by night;
    Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

  • 1 Peter 1 13-16

    Therefore
    ‘roll up the sleeves’ of your mind
    be sober,
    (and) set (your) hope fully
    on the grace
    that will be brought to you
    when Jesus Christ will be revealed.
    As obedient children,
    do not be conformed to the previous evil-desires,
    which (were yours) in ignorance
    but as the one who called you, is holy
    you yourselves also be holy
    in all your conduct
    because it is written:
    You will be holy, because I am holy.

    Lord, you have given me so much,
    I ask for one more thing –
    a grateful heart.

    George Herbert