1 Peter 1:13

Therefore, believers should mentally prepare, stay clear-minded, and fix their hope fully on the grace coming at Christ's return. Right thinking and steady hope are the practical response to the gospel.

Cross-references · 30

• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
• Luke 12:35Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning.
• 1 Pet 4:7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
• Heb 9:28so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.
• 1 Pet 3:15But in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you the reason for the hope that is in you. But respond with gentleness and respect,
• 1 Jn 3:3And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
• Titus 2:11–13For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone.
• 1 Th 5:6–8So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.
• Luke 21:34–35But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
• Eph 6:14Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed,
• 2 Tim 4:8From now on there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but to all who crave His appearing.
• 1 Cor 1:7Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Luke 17:30It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
• Heb 6:19We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,
• 2 Tim 4:5But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
• Heb 3:6But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.
• Heb 10:35So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward.
• 1 Pet 1:3–9Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• 1 Cor 13:13And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
• Job 40:7“Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
• Rom 13:13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
• Rom 15:4–13For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
• Isa 11:5Righteousness will be the belt around His hips, and faithfulness the sash around His waist.
• Jer 1:17Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them.
• Exod 12:11This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.
• 1 Kgs 18:46And the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah, and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.
• Job 38:3Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.
• 2 Th 1:7and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels
• 2 Kgs 4:29So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy’s face.”
• Luke 17:8Instead, won’t he tell him, ‘Prepare my meal and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward you may eat and drink’?

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