1 Peter 1:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Κατὰ πρόγνωσιν Θεοῦ Πατρός, ἐν ἁγιασμῷ Πνεύματος, εἰς ὑπακοὴν καὶ ῥαντισμὸν αἵματος Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ: χάρις ὑμῖν, καὶ εἰρήνη, πληθυνθείη.

Transliteration

According to prognōsin of Theou Patros, in hagiasmō of Pneumatos, for hypakoēn and rhantismon of haimatos of Iēsou Christou: charis to you, and eirēnē, may be plēthyntheiē.

Grammar Details

• *prognōsin*: accusative, feminine, singular - object of preposition
• *Theou Patros*: genitive, masculine, singular - possessive/source
• *hagiasmō*: dative, masculine, singular - sphere/means
• *Pneumatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - source/agent
• *hypakoēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - purpose/goal
• *rhantismon*: accusative, masculine, singular - purpose/goal
• *haimatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - source/material
• *Iēsou Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - possessive/source
• *charis*: nominative, feminine, singular - subject
• *eirēnē*: nominative, feminine, singular - subject
• *plēthyntheiē*: aorist, passive, optative, 3rd person, singular - wish/desire

Word Meanings

• *prognōsin*: foreknowledge/predetermination
• *hagiasmō*: sanctification/holiness/setting apart
• *Pneumatos*: Spirit/breath
• *hypakoēn*: obedience/submission
• *rhantismon*: sprinkling/purification ritual
• *haimatos*: blood/bloodshed
• *charis*: grace/favor/blessing
• *eirēnē*: peace/harmony/welfare
• *plēthyntheiē*: be multiplied/increased/abound

Referenced Verses

• Rom 11:2 : 2 God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel:
• Heb 12:24 : 24 and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than [that of] Abel.
• 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God {G138} chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
• Acts 2:23 : 23 him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay:
• 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the {G2513} heart fervently:
• 2 Pet 1:2 : 2 Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;
• John 15:16-19 : 16 Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should abide: that {G5100} whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. 17 These things I command you, that ye may love one another. 18 If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before [it hated] you. 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love {G302} its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore {G5124} the world hateth you.
• Rom 1:7 : 7 To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called [to be] saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• 2 Cor 13:14 : 14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
• Eph 1:4-5 : 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love: 5 having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
• Heb 10:22 : 22 let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water,
• Heb 11:28 : 28 By faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them.
• Col 3:12 : 12 Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;
• 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
• Titus 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
• Heb 5:9 : 9 and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation;
• Heb 9:19-22 : 19 For when {G5259} every commandment had been spoken by Moses unto all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, 20 saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded to you-ward. 21 Moreover the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry he sprinkled in like manner with the blood. 22 And according to the law, I may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.
• Rom 11:5-7 : 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 But if it is by grace, {G3765} it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. 7 What then? that which Israel seeketh for, that he {G2013} obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:
• Rom 11:28 : 28 As touching the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sake.
• Rom 15:16 : 16 that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
• Rom 16:19 : 19 For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I rejoice therefore over you: {G1909} but I would have you {G1511} wise unto that which is good, and simple unto that which is evil.
• Rom 16:26 : 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:
• 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
• 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
• 2 Cor 10:5 : 5 casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;
• Rom 8:13 : 13 for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
• Rom 8:29-30 : 29 For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren: 30 and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
• Rom 8:33 : 33 Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth;
• Rom 9:23-24 : 23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory, 24 [ even] us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
• Acts 15:18 : 18 Saith the Lord, who maketh these things known from of old.
• Acts 20:32 : 32 And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build [you] up, and to give [you] the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.
• Rom 1:5 : 5 through whom we received grace and apostleship, unto obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name's sake;
• Deut 7:6 : 6 For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
• Isa 55:7 : 7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
• Isa 65:9 : 9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
• Isa 65:22 : 22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
• Dan 4:1 : 1 Nebuchadnezzar the king, unto all the peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied unto you.
• Dan 6:25 : 25 Then king Darius wrote unto all the peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied unto you.
• Matt 24:22 : 22 And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
• Matt 24:24 : 24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
• Matt 24:31 : 31 And he shall send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
• Mark 13:20 : 20 And except the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the elect's sake, whom he chose, he shortened the days.
• Mark 13:22 : 22 for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, the elect.
• Mark 13:27 : 27 And then shall he send forth the angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
• Luke 18:7 : 7 And shall not God avenge his elect, that cry to him day and night, and [yet] he is longsuffering over them?
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a {G1519} people for [God's] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
• 2 John 1:1 : 1 The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all they that know the truth;
• 2 John 1:13 : 13 The children of thine elect sister salute thee.
• Jude 1:2 : 2 Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied.