1 Peter 1:2

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Elect accordyng to the foreknoweledge of God the father, vnto the sanctifiyng of the spirite, through obedience & sprinklyng of ye blood of Iesus Christ: Grace & peace be multiplied vnto you.

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  • Rom 11:2 : 2 God hath not cast away his people which he knewe before. Wote ye not what the scripture sayth of Elias? howe he maketh intercession to God, agaynst Israel,
  • Heb 12:24 : 24 And to Iesus the mediatour of the newe couenaunt, and to the blood of sprinklyng, that speaketh better then that of Abel.
  • 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 But we are bounde to geue thankes alway to God for you, brethren beloued of the Lorde, because that God hath fro the begynnyng chosen you to saluation in sanctifiyng of the spirite, & in fayth of the trueth:
  • Acts 2:23 : 23 Hym haue ye taken, by the handes of vnryghteous persons, after he was deliuered by the determinate councell and foreknowledge of God, and haue crucified and slayne hym.
  • 1 Pet 1:22 : 22 Euen ye which haue purified your soules through the spirite in obeying the trueth, with brotherly loue vnfayned, see that ye loue one another with a pure heart feruentlye:
  • 2 Pet 1:2 : 2 Grace and peace be multiplied vnto you, through the knowledge of God, and of Iesus our Lorde:
  • John 15:16-19 : 16 Ye haue not chosen me, but I haue chosen you, and ordayned you, to go, and bryng foorth fruite, and that your fruite shoulde remayne, that whatsoeuer ye aske of the father in my name, he may geue it you. 17 This commaunde I you, that ye loue together. 18 Yf the worlde hate you, ye knowe that it hated me before it hated you. 19 If ye were of the worlde, the worlde would loue his owne: Howbeit, because ye are not of the worlde, but I haue chosen you out of the worlde: therfore the worlde hateth you.
  • Rom 1:7 : 7 To all that be in Rome, beloued of God, saintes by callyng, grace to you, and peace, from God our father, and the Lorde Iesus Christe.
  • 2 Cor 13:14 : 14 The grace of our Lorde Iesus Christ, and the loue of God, and the comunion of the holy ghost, be with you all. Amen. The ende of the seconde Epistle to the Corinthians. Sent from Philippos, a citie in Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.
  • Eph 1:4-5 : 4 According as he had chosen vs in hym before the foundation of the world, that we shoulde be holy, and without blame before hym, through loue. 5 Who hath predestinate vs into the adoption of childre, by Iesus Christ vnto hym selfe, according to the good pleasure of his wyll:
  • Heb 10:22 : 22 Let vs drawe nye with a true hearte, in assuraunce of fayth, sprinkeled in our heartes from an euyll conscience, and wasshed in body with pure water.
  • Heb 11:28 : 28 Through fayth, he ordeyned the Passouer and the effusion of blood, lest he that destroyed the first borne, shoulde touche them.
  • Col 3:12 : 12 Put on therfore (as the elect of God, holy and beloued) bowels of mercie, kyndenesse, humblenesse of mynde, mekenesse, long sufferyng,
  • 2 Tim 2:10 : 10 Therfore I suffer all thynges for the electes sakes, that they myght also obtaine the saluation, which is in Christ Iesus, with eternall glorie.
  • Titus 1:1 : 1 Paul a seruaunt of God, & an Apostle of Iesus Christe, according to the fayth of Gods elect, & the knowledge of ye trueth, whiche is after godlynesse,
  • Heb 5:9 : 9 And being perfect, was made the aucthour of eternall saluation vnto al them that obey hym:
  • Heb 9:19-22 : 19 For when Moyses had spoken euery precept to all the people according to the lawe, takyng the blood of Calues and of Goates, with water & purple wooll and ysope, he sprynkled both the booke it selfe, and all the people, 20 Saying: This is the blood of the testament, whiche God hath enioyned vnto you. 21 And lykewise he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministerie. 22 And almost all thynges are by ye lawe pourged with blood, and without sheddyng of blood is no remission.
  • Rom 11:5-7 : 5 Euen so at this tyme, there is a remnaunt, according to the election of grace. 6 If it be of grace, then is it not nowe of workes: For the grace is no more grace. But yf it be of workes, then is it nowe no grace: For then worke is no more worke. 7 What then? Israel hath not obtayned that which he sought: but the election hath obtayned it, the remnaunt hath ben blynded,
  • Rom 11:28 : 28 As concernyng the Gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are loued for the fathers sakes.
  • Rom 15:16 : 16 That I should be the minister of Iesus Christe, to the gentiles, and shoulde minister the Gospell of God, that the offeryng of the gentiles might be acceptable, and sanctified by the holy ghost.
  • Rom 16:19 : 19 For your obedience is gone abrode vnto al men. I am glad therfore no doubt, of you: But yet I would haue you wise vnto that whiche is good, & simple concernyng euyll.
  • Rom 16:26 : 26 But nowe is opened, and by the scriptures of the prophetes, at the comaundement of the euerlastyng God, to the obedience of fayth, among all nations publisshed:
  • 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 And of hym are ye in Christe Iesu, whiche of God is made vnto vs wisedome, and righteousnesse, and sanctification, and redemption:
  • 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And such were some of you: but ye are wasshed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are iustified in the name of the Lord Iesus, and by the spirite of our God.
  • 2 Cor 10:5 : 5 Wherwith we ouerthrowe counsels, and euery hye thyng, that is exalted agaynst the knowledge of God, & bryng into captiuitie all imagination, to the obedience of Christe,
  • Rom 8:13 : 13 For if ye liue after ye fleshe, ye shall dye: But if ye through the spirite, do mortifie the deedes of the body, ye shall lyue.
  • Rom 8:29-30 : 29 For those which he knewe before, he also dyd predestinate, that they shoulde be lyke fashioned vnto the shape of his sonne, that he myght be ye first begotten among many brethren. 30 Moreouer, whom he dyd predestinate, the also he called. And whom he called, them also he iustified: And whom he iustified, them he also glorified.
  • Rom 8:33 : 33 Who shall lay any thyng to the charge of Gods chosen? It is God that iustifieth:
  • Rom 9:23-24 : 23 To declare the riches of his glory, on the vessels of mercy, which he had prepared vnto glory: 24 Whom also he called, not of ye Iewes only, but also of the Gentiles.
  • Acts 15:18 : 18 Knowen vnto God are all his workes from the begynnyng of the worlde.
  • Acts 20:32 : 32 And nowe brethren I commende you to God, and to the worde of his grace, which is able to buylde further, and to geue you an inheritaunce among all the which are sanctified.
  • Rom 1:5 : 5 By whom we haue receaued grace and apostleship, that obedience myght be geuen vnto the fayth in his name, among all heathen.
  • Deut 7:6 : 6 For thou art an holy people vnto the Lorde thy God, the Lorde thy God hath chosen thee, to be a speciall people vnto hym selfe, aboue all nations that are vpon the earth.
  • Isa 55:7 : 7 Let the vngodly man forsake his owne wayes, and the vnrighteous his owne imaginations, and turne agayne vnto the Lorde, so shall he be mercifull vnto hym: and to our God, for he is very redy to forgeue.
  • Isa 65:9 : 9 But I will take a seede out of Iacob, and out of Iuda one, to take possession of my hill: My chosen shall possesse it, and my seruauntes shall dwell there.
  • Isa 65:22 : 22 They shall not buylde and another possesse, they shall not plant and another eate: but the life of my people shalbe like a tree, and mine elect shall enioy styll the worke of their handes.
  • Dan 4:1 : 1 Nabuchodonozor king, vnto all people, natios, and languages that dwel vpon the whole earth, peace be multiplied among you.
  • Dan 6:25 : 25 After this, wrote king Darius vnto al people, nations, & tongues that dwelt in all landes: Peace be multiplied vnto you.
  • Matt 24:22 : 22 Yea, and except those dayes shoulde be shortened, there shoulde no fleshe be saued: but for the chosens sake, those dayes shalbe shortened.
  • Matt 24:24 : 24 For there shall aryse false Christes, and false prophetes, and shall shewe great signes, and wonders: In so much, that yf it were possible, the very elect, shoulde be deceaued.
  • Matt 24:31 : 31 And he shall sende his Angels, with the great sounde of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen, from the foure wyndes, euen from one ende of heauen, to the other.
  • Mark 13:20 : 20 And except that the Lorde shoulde shorten those dayes, no fleshe shoulde be saued: But for the electes sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened those dayes.
  • Mark 13:22 : 22 For false Christes, and false prophetes shall ryse, and shall shewe signes and wonders, to deceaue, yf it were possible, euen the elect.
  • Mark 13:27 : 27 And then shall he sende his Angels, and shall gather together his elect, from the foure wyndes, from the ende of the earth, to the vtmost part of heauen.
  • Luke 18:7 : 7 And shall not God auenge his elect, which crye day and nyght vnto hym? yea, though he deferre them,
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royall priesthood, an holy nation, a peculier people: that ye should shewe foorth the vertues of hym that called you out of darknesse into his marueylous lyght.
  • 2 John 1:1 : 1 The elder to the elect Lady & her chyldren, whom I loue in the trueth: and not I only, but also all that haue knowen ye trueth:
  • 2 John 1:13 : 13 The sonnes of thy elect sister greete thee. Amen.
  • Jude 1:2 : 2 Mercy vnto you, and peace and loue be multiplied.

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