1 Peter 1:12

American Standard Version (1901)

To whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced unto you through them that preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

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  • John 15:26 : 26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me:
  • Eph 3:10 : 10 to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly [places] might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,
  • Dan 8:13 : 13 Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said unto that certain one who spake, How long shall be the vision [concerning] the continual [burnt-offering], and the transgression that maketh desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
  • Heb 11:39-40 : 39 And these all, having had witness borne to them through their faith, received not the promise, 40 God having provided some better thing concerning us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
  • Rev 5:11 : 11 And I saw, and I heard a voice of many angels round about the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
  • Dan 12:5-6 : 5 Then I, Daniel, looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on the brink of the river on this side, and the other on the brink of the river on that side. 6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
  • Dan 12:9 : 9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed till the time of the end.
  • Dan 12:13 : 13 But go thou thy way till the end be; for thou shalt rest, and shalt stand in thy lot, at the end of the days.
  • Joel 2:28 : 28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
  • Amos 3:7 : 7 Surely the Lord Jehovah will do nothing, except he reveal his secret unto his servants the prophets.
  • Zech 12:10 : 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look unto me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born.
  • Matt 11:25 : 25 At that season Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes: [
  • Matt 11:27 : 27 All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth the Son, save the Father; neither doth any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal [him] .
  • Matt 16:17 : 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
  • Mark 16:15 : 15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.
  • Luke 2:26 : 26 And it had been revealed unto him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
  • Luke 9:6 : 6 And they departed, and went throughout the villages, preaching the gospel, and healing everywhere.
  • Luke 15:10 : 10 Even so, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
  • Exod 25:20 : 20 And the cherubim shall spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.
  • Prov 1:23 : 23 Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you.
  • Isa 11:2-6 : 2 And the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah. 3 And his delight shall be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears; 4 but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins. 6 And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
  • Isa 32:15 : 15 until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest.
  • Isa 44:3-5 : 3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and streams upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: 4 and they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses. 5 One shall say, I am Jehovah's; and another shall call [himself] by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto Jehovah, and surname [himself] by the name of Israel.
  • Isa 53:1 : 1 Who hath believed our message? and to whom hath the arm of Jehovah been revealed?
  • Dan 2:19 : 19 Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
  • Dan 2:22 : 22 he revealeth the deep and secret things; he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.
  • Dan 2:28-29 : 28 but there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and he hath made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these: 29 as for thee, O king, thy thoughts came [into thy mind] upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter; and he that revealeth secrets hath made known to thee what shall come to pass.
  • Dan 2:47 : 47 The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou hast been able to reveal this secret.
  • John 16:7-9 : 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send him unto you. 8 And he, when he is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 of sin, because they believe not on me; 10 of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye behold me no more; 11 of judgment, because the prince of this world hath been judged. 12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. 13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, [these] shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come. 14 He shall glorify me: for he shall take of mine, and shall declare [it] unto you. 15 All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he taketh of mine, and shall declare [it] unto you.
  • Acts 2:2-4 : 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them tongues parting asunder, like as of fire; and it sat upon each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
  • Acts 2:17-18 : 17 And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour forth of my Spirit upon all flesh: And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, And your young men shall see visions, And your old men shall dream dreams: 18 Yea and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days Will I pour forth of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.
  • Acts 2:33 : 33 Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he hath poured forth this, which ye see and hear.
  • Acts 4:8 : 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders,
  • Acts 4:31 : 31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken wherein they were gathered together; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
  • Acts 8:25 : 25 They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.
  • Acts 10:44 : 44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all them that heard the word.
  • Acts 16:10 : 10 And when he had seen the vision, straightway we sought to go forth into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
  • Rom 1:15 : 15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are in Rome.
  • Rom 1:17 : 17 For therein is revealed a righteousness of God from faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.
  • Rom 10:15 : 15 and how shall they preach, except they be sent? even as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of good things!
  • Rom 15:19 : 19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;
  • 1 Cor 2:10 : 10 But unto us God revealed [them] through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
  • 2 Cor 1:22 : 22 who also sealed us, and gave [us] the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
  • 2 Cor 6:6 : 6 in pureness, in knowledge, in long suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,
  • Gal 1:12 : 12 For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but [it came to me] through revelation of Jesus Christ.
  • Gal 1:16 : 16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood:
  • 1 Pet 1:25 : 25 But the word of the Lord abideth for ever. And this is the word of good tidings which was preached unto you.
  • Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
  • Dan 10:1 : 1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.
  • 1 Thess 1:5-6 : 5 how that our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and [in] much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we showed ourselves toward you for your sake. 6 And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit;
  • 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
  • Heb 2:4 : 4 God also bearing witness with them, both by signs and wonders, and by manifold powers, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will.
  • Heb 4:2 : 2 For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by faith with them that heard.
  • Heb 11:13 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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    10 Concerning which salvation the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that [should come] unto you:

    11 searching what [time] or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did point unto, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that should follow them.

  • 14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to do service for the sake of them that shall inherit salvation?

  • 5 which in other generations was not made known unto the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

  • 5 For not unto angels did he subject the world to come, whereof we speak.

  • 13 Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

  • 18 Let no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he hath seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

  • 1 Cor 2:9-10
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    9 but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And [which] entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.

    10 But unto us God revealed [them] through the Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

  • 11 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, bring not a railing judgment against them before the Lord.

  • 1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, [even] the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified [it] by his angel unto his servant John;

  • 6 And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

  • 4 For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

  • 6 And I saw another angel flying in mid heaven, having eternal good tidings to proclaim unto them that dwell on the earth, and unto every nation and tribe and tongue and people;

  • 2 For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;

  • 15 And it came to pass, when the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing that is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.

  • 7 and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire,

  • Col 1:26-27
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    26 [ even] the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints,

    27 to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

  • Heb 1:6-7
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    6 And when he again bringeth in the firstborn into the world he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.

    7 And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels winds, And his ministers a flame of fire:

  • Eph 3:9-10
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    9 and to make all men see what is the dispensation of the mystery which for ages hath been hid in God who created all things;

    10 to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly [places] might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,

  • 53 ye who received the law as it was ordained by angels, and kept it not.

  • 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the spirit, Seen of angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.

  • 20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake,

  • 6 For unto this end was the gospel preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

  • 13 seeing that through the proving [of you] by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of [your] contribution unto them and unto all;

  • 22 but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,

  • 26 but now is manifested, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known unto all the nations unto obedience of faith:

  • 22 And they said, Cornelius a centurion, a righteous man and one that feareth God, and well reported of by all the nation of the Jews, was warned [of God] by a holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words from thee.

  • 9 And an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

  • Luke 1:1-2
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    1 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to draw up a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,

    2 even as they delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,

  • 1 After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

  • 16 For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

  • 8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be anathema.

  • 5 because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel,

  • 5 how that our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and [in] much assurance; even as ye know what manner of men we showed ourselves toward you for your sake.

  • 9 For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

  • 22 who is on the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

  • 19 in which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison,

  • 17 For verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which ye see, and saw them not; and to hear the things which ye hear, and heard them not.

  • 8 even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us.

  • 12 to the end that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped in Christ:

  • 9 making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

  • 2 that ye should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of the Lord and Saviour through your apostles:

  • 20 and that he may send the Christ who hath been appointed for you, [even] Jesus:

  • 2 which he promised afore through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

  • 16 to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood: