Passage Research
1 Peter 1 — Sermon Preparation
Believers chosen for a living hope through Christ's resurrection are called to holy living in light of their costly redemption. Below is a research summary for 1 Peter 1, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 25
- verses
- 405 / 185
- Greek words / lemmas
- 59
- classic sermon excerpts
- 6
- preachers & commentators
1 Peter 1 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ἅγιος | hágios | G40 | 5 | holy, saint |
| ὑπακοή | hypakoḗ | G5218 | 3 | obedience, obedient, obey |
| χόρτος | chórtos | G5528 | 3 | blade, grass, hay |
| δόξα | dóxa | G1391 | 4 | dignity, glory, honour, praise |
| πίστις | pístis | G4102 | 4 | assurance, belief, believe, faith |
| σωτηρία | sōtēría | G4991 | 3 | deliver, health, salvation, save |
| ἀναγεννάω | anagennáō | G313 | 2 | beget |
How preachers through history handled this text
59 public-domain excerpts on 1 Peter 1, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“This epistle is addressed to believers in general, who are strangers in every city or country where they live, and are scattered through the nations. These are to ascribe their salvation to the electing love of the Father, the redemption of the Son, and the sanctification of the Holy Ghost; and so to give glory to one God in three Persons, into whose name they had been baptized. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on 1 Peter 1:1–9 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Asia— 1 Pet 1:1
- Bithynia— 1 Pet 1:1
- Cappadocia— 1 Pet 1:1
- Galatia— 1 Pet 1:1
- Pontus— 1 Pet 1:1
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