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 and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
• Luke 12:35“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
• Heb 9:28so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.
• 1 Pet 3:15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:
• 1 Jn 3:3Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
• Titus 2:11–13For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
• 1 Th 5:6–8so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
• Luke 21:34–35“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
• Eph 6:14Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
• 2 Tim 4:8From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
• 1 Cor 1:7so that you come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;
• Luke 17:30It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
• Heb 6:19This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
• 2 Tim 4:5But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
• Heb 3:6but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
• Heb 10:35Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
• 1 Pet 1:3–9Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• 1 Cor 13:13But now faith, hope, and love remain — these three. The greatest of these is love.
• Job 40:7“Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me.
• Rom 13:13Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
• Rom 15:4–13For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
• Isa 11:5Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.
• Jer 1:17“You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and say to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.
• Exod 12:11This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.
• 1 Kgs 18:46Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
• Job 38:3Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me!
• 2 Th 1:7and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
• 2 Kgs 4:29Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the child’s face.”
• Luke 17:8and will not rather tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink’?

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