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, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
• Luke 12:35Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
• Heb 9:28So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
• 1 Pet 3:15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
• 1 Jn 3:3And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
• Titus 2:11–13For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
• 1 Th 5:6–8Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
• Luke 21:34–35And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
• Eph 6:14Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
• 2 Tim 4:8Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
• 1 Cor 1:7So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
• Luke 17:30Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
• Heb 6:19Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
• 2 Tim 4:5But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
• Heb 3:6But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
• Heb 10:35Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
• 1 Pet 1:3–9Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• 1 Cor 13:13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
• Job 40:7Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
• Rom 13:13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
• Rom 15:4–13For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
• Isa 11:5And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
• Jer 1:17Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.
• Exod 12:11And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s passover.
• 1 Kgs 18:46And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
• Job 38:3Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
• 2 Th 1:7And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
• 2 Kgs 4:29Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.
• Luke 17:8And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?

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