| › Chapter 1 - The Possibilities and Dynamics of the Regenerate Life - THE EPISTLES OF ST. PETER
BY THE REV.
J. H. JOWETT, M.A.
The Devotional
and Practical
Commentary
THIRD EDITION
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON ...read |
| › Chapter 2 - Sorrowful, Yet Always Rejoicing - 1 Peter i. 6, 7
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials, that the proo ...read |
| › Chapter 3 - A Twofold Relationship and its Fruits - 1 Peter i. 8, 9
Whom not having seen ye love; on whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full ...read |
| › Chapter 4 - Being Fashioned - 1 Peter i. 13-16
Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is being brought unto you at th ...read |
| › Chapter 5 - The Holiness of the Father - 1 Peter i. 17-21
And if ye call on Him as Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to each man's work, pass the time of your sojourn ...read |
| › Chapter 6 - The Creation of Culture and Affection - 1 Peter i. 22-25
Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from a clea ...read |
| › Chapter 7 - The Living Stones and the Spiritual House - 1 Peter ii. 1-10
Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as newborn babes, long f ...read |
| › Chapter 8 - The Ministry of Seemly Behaviour - 1 Peter ii. 11-17
Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul; having your behaviour ...read |
| › Chapter 9 - The Sufferings of Christ - 1 Peter ii. 21-25
For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow His steps: who di ...read |
| › Chapter 10 - Wives and Husbands - 1 Peter iii. 1-8
In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be ...read |
| › Chapter 11 - Be Pitiful - 1 Peter iii. 8
Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded.
"BE PITIFUL!" Here the standard of a ...read |
| › Chapter 12 - Christ Sanctified as Lord - 1 Peter iii. 8-15
Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded: not rendering evil for evil, or rev ...read |
| › Chapter 13 - Bringing us to God - 1 Peter iii. 18-22
Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God; being put to death in the f ...read |
| › Chapter 14 - The Suffering Which Means Triumph - 1 Peter iv. 1-6
Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh ha ...read |
| › Chapter 15 - Getting Ready for the End - 1 Peter iv. 7-11
The end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer: above all things being fervent in your l ...read |
| › Chapter 16 - The Fiery Trial - 1 Peter iv. 12-19
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing ...read |
| › Chapter 17 - Tending the Flock - 1 Peter v. 1-7
The elders therefore among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of ...read |
| › Chapter 18 - Through Antagonisms to Perfectness - 1 Peter v. 8-10
Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom withstand stedfa ...read |
| › Chapter 19 - Liberty! Equality! Fraternity! - 2 Peter i. 1, 2
Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained an equally precious faith with us in the righteou ...read |
| › Chapter 20 - The Christian's Resources - 2 Peter i. 1-4
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness ...read |
| › Chapter 21 - Diligence in the Spirit - 2 Peter i. 5-9
Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge; and in you ...read |
| › Chapter 22 - The Sanctification of the Memory - 2 Peter i. 12-15
Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth ...read |
| › Chapter 23 - The Transfigured Jesus - 2 Peter i. 16-18
For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we w ...read |
| › Chapter 24 - The Mystery of the Prophet - 2 Peter i. 19-21
And we have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a squalid place, ...read |
| › Chapter 25 - Destructive Heresies - 2 Peter ii. 1
But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in dest ...read |
| › Chapter 26 - Worse than the First - 2 Peter ii. 20, 21
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are ...read |
| › Chapter 27 - The Leisureliness of God - 2 Peter iii. 3, 4, 8, 9.
Mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of His presence? . . . One ...read |
| › Chapter 28 - Preparing for the Judgment - 2 Peter iii. 10-14
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall ...read |
| › Chapter 29 - Growing in Grace - 2 Peter iii. 18
Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
IF these words, and indeed the nature and contents of all th ...read |
