1 Peter 2

1 Peter 2:1

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, &c.

Wherefore, since ye are, by the grace of the Gospel, now happily regenerated and become children unto God, do ye de- mean yourselves and be affected accordingly; and, therefore, laying aside all malicious disposition, and all guile and hypo- crisies, &c.

1 Peter 2:4

5. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

To whom being joined in this spiritual structure, as unto a sure corner-stone, rejected indeed and disallowed of men, but chosen and fully accepted of God, Ye also, as so many living stones, are laid in this spiritual building, to make up a spiritual temple unto God: and, that ye may be every way answerable to those legal institutions, ye are also a holy, but Evangelical, priesthood; to offer up, not material and bodily, but spiritual sacrifices of yourselves, and of praises and thanksgivings, ac- ceptable unto God, by Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:8

Whereunto also they were appointed.

Unto which offence they were given up by the most just decree of God, who hath holily and justly ordained to punish one sin with another, in the wilfully disobedient.

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pil- grims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

My brethren, ye are strangers and pilgrims, in respect of your earthly home, from which ye are driven, much more in respect of your heavenly, whither ye are travelling: I beseech you, therefore, that ye carry yourselves thereafter; abstaining from all those carnal and sensual desires, which worldly hearts are wont to be taken up with, and which are very pernicious to the soul, and utterly opposite to the peace and welfare thereof.

1 Peter 2:13

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme.

Subject yourselves to every superior power, that is ap- pointed over you; whether it be to that of kings, or other their subordinate governors: and that, not so much out of fear, as out of the conscience of your obedience to God, who hath ordained them.

1 Peter 2:15

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

For so is the will of God, that ye so behave yourselves, as that, by the integrity and innocence of your carriage, ye may stop the mouths of those ignorant and malicious infidels, which seek advantages against you:

1 Peter 2:16

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of ma- liciousness, but as the servants of God.

As those, that are indeed a free people; free, not from the due obedience to authority, but from the spiritual bondage of

1 Peter 2:24

Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness.

Who, in his own person, did take upon him the heavy burden of our sins; and did, in his very own body, both undergo and pay upon the Cross, those punishments, which were due to us, for all our sins, &c.