1 Peter 1:3

Peter bursts into praise because God, in great mercy, has caused believers to be born again into a living hope grounded in Christ's resurrection. Our new life and hope are God's gift, not our achievement.

Cross-references · 40

• 1 Pet 1:23For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
• 1 Jn 5:4because everyone born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world: our faith.
• Rom 15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
• Titus 3:4–6But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,
• Eph 1:7In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace
• 2 Cor 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
• 1 Jn 3:3And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
• Rom 12:12Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.
• Eph 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
• 1 Jn 2:29If you know that He is righteous, you also know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
• John 3:3–8Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
• Eph 3:20Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
• Exod 34:6Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
• Eph 1:17that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.
• 1 Pet 3:21And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
• Ps 86:15But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
• Eph 2:6–10And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
• Eph 2:4But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
• Titus 2:13as we await the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.
• Jas 1:18He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
• 1 Cor 15:20But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
• 1 Tim 1:14And the grace of our Lord overflowed to me, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Cor 13:13And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
• Rom 8:24For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?
• 1 Chr 29:10–13Then David blessed the LORD in the sight of all the assembly and said: “May You be blessed, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
• Rom 8:11And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.
• Heb 6:18–19Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
• Ps 41:13Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.
• Ps 86:5For You, O Lord, are kind and forgiving, rich in loving devotion to all who call on You.
• 1 Chr 29:20Then David said to the whole assembly, “Blessed be the LORD your God.” So the whole assembly blessed the LORD, the God of their fathers. They bowed down and paid homage to the LORD and to the king.
• 1 Kgs 8:15and said: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His own hand what He spoke with His mouth to my father David, saying,
• 1 Jn 3:9Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
• 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.
• Isa 26:19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
• 1 Pet 2:2Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
• Rom 4:25He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.
• 1 Th 1:3and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Jonah 4:2So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
• Ps 72:18–19Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
• John 1:13children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man, but born of God.

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