Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.
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- WEB who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
- KJV Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
- NKJV who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
- NASB who through Him are believers in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
- NLT Through Christ you have come to trust in God. And you have placed your faith and hope in God because he raised Christ from the dead and gave him great glory.
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Through Christ believers trust in God, who raised him and gave him glory, so that their faith and hope rest in God. Christ is the one through whom we come to trustworthy faith in God.
Overview
Faith in God comes 'through' Christ, the mediator who makes God known and accessible. The Father's raising of Jesus and giving him glory provide the firm ground for the believers' faith and hope. Peter thus directs trust ultimately to God, whose resurrection power and exaltation of Christ guarantee that such faith will not be disappointed.
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- Acts 2:24But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.
- Heb 2:9But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.
- John 12:44Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in Me does not believe in Me alone, but in the One who sent Me.
- Heb 7:25Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
- Acts 2:32–33God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.
- 1 Pet 1:11trying to determine the time and setting to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.
- 1 Pet 3:22who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.
- Eph 1:15For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
- Eph 1:20–23which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,
- Phil 2:9–11Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,
- Rom 4:24but also for us, to whom righteousness will be credited—for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead.
- John 3:34For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.
- Rom 10:9that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
- John 5:22–24Furthermore, the Father judges no one, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,
- 1 Tim 1:1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,
- Acts 3:15You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of the fact.
- Col 1:27To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
- John 14:1“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well.
- Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.
- John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
- Jer 17:7But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.
- Ps 146:3–5Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.
- Matt 28:18Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
- Eph 1:12–13in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, would be for the praise of His glory.
- Acts 4:10then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.
- John 17:1When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.
- John 13:31–32When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in Him.
- Ps 42:5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
- Heb 6:1Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith in God,
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