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 1:23having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.
• 1 Jn 5:4For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
• Rom 15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
• Titus 3:4–6But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
• Eph 1:7in whom we have our 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 mercies and God of all comfort;
• 1 Jn 3:3Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
• Rom 12:12rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;
• Eph 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
• 1 Jn 2:29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
• John 3:3–8Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”
• Eph 3:20Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
• Exod 34:6Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,
• Eph 1:17that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
• 1 Pet 3:21This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you — not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
• Ps 86:15But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
• Eph 2:6–10and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
• Eph 2:4But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
• Titus 2:13looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;
• Jas 1:18Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
• 1 Cor 15:20But now Christ has been raised from the dead. He became the first fruits of those who are asleep.
• 1 Tim 1:14The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Cor 13:13But now faith, hope, and love remain — these three. The greatest of these is love.
• Rom 8:24For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
• 1 Chr 29:10–13Therefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, “You are blessed, Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, forever and ever.
• Rom 8:11But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
• Heb 6:18–19that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
• Ps 41:13Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.
• Ps 86:5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
• 1 Chr 29:20Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless Yahweh your God!” All the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king.
• 1 Kgs 8:15He said, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
• 1 Jn 3:9Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.
• 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.
• Isa 26:19Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
• 1 Pet 2:2as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
• Rom 4:25who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.
• 1 Th 1:3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
• Jonah 4:2He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
• Ps 72:18–19Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.
• John 1:13who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

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