Rod Ross

1 Peter 1:1-25, 2:1-10 Matthew 13:54-58

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Holy Bible daily reading:

1 Peter 1:1-25, 2:1-10 Matthew 13:54-58

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1 Peter 1

  1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout
Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
  2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through
sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of
Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
  3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to
his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
  4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away,
reserved in heaven for you,
  5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be
revealed in the last time.
  6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in
heaviness through manifold temptations:
  7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that
perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour
and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
  8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet
believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
  9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
  10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who
prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
  11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in
them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and
the glory that should follow.
  12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did
minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached
the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the
angels desire to look into.
  13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end
for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus
Christ;
  14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former
lusts in your ignorance:
  15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of
conversation;
  16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
  17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth
according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
  18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as
silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your
fathers;
  19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and
without spot:
  20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was
manifest in these last times for you,
  21 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.
  22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit
unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure
heart fervently:
  23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the
word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
  24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of
grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
  25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by
the gospel is preached unto you.

1 Peter 2

  1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and
envies, and all evil speakings,
  2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow
thereby:
  3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
  4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but
chosen of God, and precious,
  5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy
priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus
Christ.
  6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a
chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be
confounded.
  7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be
disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head
of the corner,
  8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble
at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
  9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a
peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called
you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
  10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which
had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

Matthew 13

  54 And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their
synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man
this wisdom, and these mighty works?
  55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his
brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
  56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all
these things?
  57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not
without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
  58 And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.