1st Peter Chapter 1 verse 9 Holy Bible

ASV 1stPeter 1:9

receiving the end of your faith, `even' the salvation of `your' souls.
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BBE 1stPeter 1:9

For so you have the true end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
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DARBY 1stPeter 1:9

receiving the end of your faith, [the] salvation of [your] souls.
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KJV 1stPeter 1:9

Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
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WBT 1stPeter 1:9


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WEB 1stPeter 1:9

receiving the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
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YLT 1stPeter 1:9

receiving the end of your faith -- salvation of souls;
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1st Peter 1 : 9 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. The present participle "receiving" (κομιζόμενοι) implies that the believer realizes the deep blessing of salvation gradually while he is being saved as one of οἱ σωζόμενοι (Acts 2:47). Salvation is present as well as future. "By grace ye are saved through faith" (Ephesians 2:8); "According to his mercy he saved us" (Titus 3:5). God's elect receive it in various measures now; in its blessed fullness it will be manifested hereafter. It is the end which faith ever holds in view, pressing towards it as the prize of the high calling. It is the salvation especially of souls; for, as Bengel says," Anima praecipue salvatur; corpus in resurreetione participat."

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) Receiving the end of your faith.--The "end of our faith" means, the object to which our faith is directed, the thing we believed for. And "faith" catches up the "believing" of last verse, so that, in reading, the accent of the sentence falls on "end," not on "faith;" and the whole clause is added to justify the statement that we rejoice with a joy which has already attained its full perfection. The reason is, he says, because we receive already, in the present life, the object of all this trusting without sight; we need not wait till the next world to attain our glorification.The salvation of your souls.--It might be simply, salvation of souls, including other men's besides our own, but the context is against it, and the absence of articles is characteristic of St. Peter. It seems at first sight not a very exalted object for our faith to work to, the deliverance, or safety, of our own souls. And yet our Lord fully recognises the instinct of the higher self-preservation as that to which the ultimate appeal must be made (Matthew 16:25-26). He could give His own soul a ransom for many (Matthew 20:28); He could save others and not Himself (Matthew 27:42); St. Paul could wish himself accursed from Christ for his brethren's sake, "that they might be saved" (Romans 9:3; Romans 10:1); Moses could ask to be "blotted out of the book" (Exodus 32:32); and yet the fact remains, that in seeking our own welfare, in the highest sense, we are fulfilling a primal law of our being, imposed upon us by the Creator. We are bound to make that our first object, if it were only to gratify Him who has no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, even if we could possibly divest ourselves of all "selfish" interest in the matter. . . .