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1 Peter 1
Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation
1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers dispersed through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, elect,
2 According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the 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, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead: CCC
4 Unto an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled and that cannot fade, reserved in heaven for you, CCC
5 Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. CCC
6 Wherein you shall greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations: CCC
7 That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ. CCC
8 Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now though you see him not, you believe and, believing, shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorified; CCC · Fathers
9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. CCC
10 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and diligently searched, who prophesied of the grace to come in you. CCC
11 Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them did signify, when it foretold those sufferings that are in Christ and the glories that should follow. CCC
12 To whom it was revealed that, not to themselves but to you, they ministered those things which are now declared to you by them that have preached the gospel to you: the Holy Ghost being sent down from heaven, on whom the angels desire to look. CCC · Fathers
13 Wherefore, having the loins of your mind girt up, being sober, trust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.
14 As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance,
15 But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you also in all manner of conversation holy:
16 Because it is written: You shall be holy, for I am holy.
17 And if you invoke as Father him who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to every one’s work: converse in fear during the time of your sojourning here.
18 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled.
20 Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you:
21 Who through him are faithful in God who raised him up from the dead and hath given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God. Fathers
22 Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever. CCC
24 For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.
25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel hath been preached unto you.
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Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text.
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- CCC 2627 “TWO fundamental forms express this movement: our prayer ascends in the Holy Spirit through Christ to the Father - we bless him…”
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- CCC 2627 “TWO fundamental forms express this movement: our prayer ascends in the Holy Spirit through Christ to the Father - we bless him…”
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- CCC 2627 “TWO fundamental forms express this movement: our prayer ascends in the Holy Spirit through Christ to the Father - we bless him…”
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- CCC 2627 “TWO fundamental forms express this movement: our prayer ascends in the Holy Spirit through Christ to the Father - we bless him…”
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- CCC 2627 “TWO fundamental forms express this movement: our prayer ascends in the Holy Spirit through Christ to the Father - we bless him…”
“… Lord Jesus Christ, who for our sins suffered even unto death, [but] "whom God raised from the dead, having loosed the bands of the grave." "In whom, though now ye see Him not, ye believe, and believing, rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory;”
Quoted in Letter to the Philippians, St. Polycarp of Smyrna (early 2nd century), Chapter I. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
“… day, Behold our Lord God, in whom we have trusted, and we have rejoiced in our salvation;" and Peter says in his Epistle: "Whom, not seeing, ye love; in whom, though now ye see Him not, ye have believed, ye shall rejoice with joy unspeakable;”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book IV, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter IX. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
“… in part, and we prophesy in part, but then face to face." And this it is which has been said also by Peter: "Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom now also, not seeing, ye believe; and believing, ye shall rejoice with joy unspeakable.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter VII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 2627 “TWO fundamental forms express this movement: our prayer ascends in the Holy Spirit through Christ to the Father - we bless him…”
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- CCC 719 “John the Baptist is "more than a prophet." In him, the Holy Spirit concludes his speaking through the prophets. John completes the…”
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- CCC 719 “John the Baptist is "more than a prophet." In him, the Holy Spirit concludes his speaking through the prophets. John completes the…”
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- CCC 719 “John the Baptist is "more than a prophet." In him, the Holy Spirit concludes his speaking through the prophets. John completes the…”
“For He has brought Himself, and has bestowed on men those good things which were announced beforehand, which things the angels desired to look into.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book IV, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XXXIV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
“… ear has heard, nor has [thought concerning them] arisen within the heart of man, For there is the one Son, who accomplished His Father's will; and one human race also in which the mysteries of God are wrought, "which the angels desire to look into;”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XXXVI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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“error of the multitude, and "believed in Him who raised up our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead, and gave Him glory,”
Quoted in Letter to the Philippians, St. Polycarp of Smyrna (early 2nd century), Chapter II. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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