1 Peter 2:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord:

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 34:8 : 8 By experience you will see that the Lord is good; happy is the man who has faith in him.
  • Ps 63:5 : 5 My soul will be comforted, as with good food; and my mouth will give you praise with songs of joy;
  • Song 2:3 : 3 As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
  • Zech 9:17 : 17 For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.
  • Heb 6:5-6 : 5 With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time, 6 And then let themselves be turned away, it is not possible for their hearts to be made new a second time; because they themselves put the Son of God on the cross again, openly shaming him.
  • Ps 9:10 : 10 And those who have knowledge of your name will put their faith in you; because you, Lord, have ever given your help to those who were waiting for you.
  • Ps 24:8 : 8 Who is the King of glory? The Lord of strength and power, the Lord strong in war.

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  • 1 Pet 2:1-2
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    1So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

    2Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

  • 1 Pet 2:4-7
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    4To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;

    5You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

    6Because it is said in the Writings, See, I am placing a keystone in Zion, of great and special value; and the man who has faith in him will not be put to shame.

    7And the value is for you who have faith; but it is said for those without faith, The very stone which the builders put on one side, was made the chief stone of the building;

  • Heb 6:4-5
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    4As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit,

    5With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time,

  • Ps 34:8
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    8By experience you will see that the Lord is good; happy is the man who has faith in him.

  • 1 Pet 1:6-9
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    6You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,

    7So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

    8To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:

    9For so you have the true end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

  • 2 Pet 1:2-5
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    2May grace and peace ever be increasing in you, in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

    3Because by his power he has given us everything necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of him who has been our guide by his glory and virtue;

    4And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.

    5So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue,

  • 1 Pet 1:21-22
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    21Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

    22And as you have made your souls clean, being ruled by what is true, and loving one another without deceit, see that your love is warm and from the heart:

  • 2 Pet 3:17-18
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    17For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.

    18But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.

  • 1 Pet 5:10
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    10And after you have undergone pain for a little time, the God of all grace who has given you a part in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will himself give you strength and support, and make you complete in every good thing;

  • 2 Pet 1:7-11
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    7And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.

    8For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    9For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.

    10For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:

    11For so the way will be open to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

  • Heb 3:7
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    7And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,

  • Jude 1:17
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    17But you, my loved ones, keep in memory the words which were said before by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • 1 Pet 1:2-3
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    2Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.

    3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,

  • Heb 4:16
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    16Then let us come near to the seat of grace without fear, so that mercy may be given to us, and we may get grace for our help in time of need.

  • 1 Pet 2:10-11
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    10In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.

    11My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

  • Heb 12:15
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    15Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

  • 1 Pet 3:17
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    17Because if it is God's purpose for you to undergo pain, it is better to do so for well-doing than for evil-doing.

  • Jas 1:3
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    3Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;

  • 1 Pet 1:17
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    17And if you give the name of Father to him who, judging every man by his acts, has no respect for a man's position, then go in fear while you are on this earth:

  • 1 Pet 1:13-14
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    13So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

    14Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

  • 1 Pet 5:12
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    12I have sent you this short letter by Silvanus, a true brother, in my opinion; comforting you and witnessing that this is the true grace of God; keep to it.

  • 2 Pet 3:14
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    14For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.

  • Eph 3:2
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    2If that ordering of the grace of God has come to your knowledge, which was given to me for you,

  • Col 1:6
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    6Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;

  • Col 2:6
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    6As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,

  • Heb 2:3
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    3What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;

  • Titus 2:11
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    11For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,

  • 1 Pet 3:8
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    8Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:

  • 2 Pet 3:2
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    2So that you may keep in mind the words of the holy prophets in the past, and the law of the Lord and Saviour which was given to you by his Apostles.

  • 2 Tim 3:15
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    15And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.