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.
Parallel translations
- 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.
- BSB Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are 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 2:24whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
- Heb 2:9But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
- John 12:44Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
- Heb 7:25Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
- Acts 2:32–33This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
- 1 Pet 1:11searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.
- 1 Pet 3:22who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
- Eph 1:15For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which you have toward all the saints,
- Eph 1:20–23which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
- Phil 2:9–11Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;
- Rom 4:24but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,
- John 3:34For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
- Rom 10:9that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
- John 5:22–24For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,
- 1 Tim 1:1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;
- Acts 3:15and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
- Col 1:27to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;
- John 14:1“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.
- Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
- John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
- Jer 17:7“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.
- Ps 146:3–5Don’t put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help.
- Matt 28:18Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
- Eph 1:12–13to the end that we should be to the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:
- Acts 4:10be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, in him does this man stand here before you whole.
- John 17:1Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;
- John 13:31–32When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
- Ps 42:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
- Heb 6:1Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection — not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,
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