“Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart.”
A new kind of love demands a new kind of life.
fervently
“Fervently” is the same word used of prayer in Acts 12:5. The believers prayed unceasingly for Peter. Just […]
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Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart.”
with a pure heart
The word “pure” means genuine, not hypocritical, (Romans 12:9).
The word “heart” is an important biblical term,
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! […]
“having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.”
having been born again
The idea of being born again refers to regeneration. By breaking down the word, we have “Generation” means born and “re” means again. “Born again” means to cause to give birth. These words […]
“having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.”
having been born again
Jesus Himself gave a long explanation of this subject in John 3. His theme was “You must be born again,” (John 3:7). Why must this be? There is a great gulf between people […]
having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.”
not of corruptible seed
Peter first sets forth the negative of how a person is born again, then he presents the positive, “not…but.” The negative can be seen in such passages as:
“But as many as received […]
having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.”
but incorruptible
This is the third time we have come to something “incorruptible” in this chapter. Our eternal inheritance is incorruptible (1:3,4). God redeemed us by the incorruptible blood of Christ (1:18,19).
“Incorruptible” means not liable to corruption […]
because
“All flesh is as grass,
And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass.
The grass withers,
And its flower falls away”
because
Peter argues the eternality of the Word of God (v.23) with a quote from Isaiah 40:6-8. Isaiah 40 deals with Israel under apostasy. The nation was dead, the temple ravaged, and the people had […]
But the word of the Lord endures forever.”
But the word of the Lord
The word “word” means the spoken word. The spoken word of God endures forever. There is a slogan that says, “There will always be an England.” That is not true because God says that there is going to be a new heaven and […]
”Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking.”
Peter is about to discuss Christian growth (2:2). Before a person grows into a healthy Christian he may be susceptible to certain childhood diseases. The Holy Spirit lists these diseases in verse one.
Therefore
“Therefore” draws an inference from our new birth (1:23). A new […]
”Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking.”
laying aside
Peter singles out five sins that deal with right relation to man. We cannot have right relation to God if we do not have right relation to men.The word means to put off from oneself, to lay aside. This is a […]