Who was 1 Peter written to?

achduke

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Joh 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Act 1:5 "for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

Joh 14:16 "And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever,
 

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Joh 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Act 1:5 "for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

Joh 14:16 "And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever,
Born again in the Bible.

John 3:3, 7 NASB - 3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." ... 7 "Do not be amazed that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

1 Peter 1:3, 23 NASB - 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ... 23 for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.
 

achduke

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Born again in the Bible.

John 3:3, 7 NASB - 3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." ... 7 "Do not be amazed that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

1 Peter 1:3, 23 NASB - 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, ... 23 for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God.

Joh 2:21 But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

Luk 17:21 "nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you."

1Co 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
 

turbosixx

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I mean the nations other than Israel, or those who are either non-believers or not Jews. A Gentile is not a Jew. A Jew can be a Christian. But I don't believe Peter is necessarily speaking to Christians, but he is speaking to believers. Anyone can read, understand, and apply what he wrote to their lives. Those who believed Jesus to be the Messiah could be called Christians at some point in the first century (read Acts 11:26 NASB ), but I don't know that Peter did here. Maybe those who lived outside of the nation of Israel but who were unbelievers.

You are making this more complicated than it is.


The gospel is for all with no distinction of Jew or Gentile.
Matt. 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
Mark 16:15 And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
There is no distinction in those passages.

Paul condemns Peter for showing distinction which is not the truth of the gospel.

Gal. 2:11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For prior to the coming of certain men from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof, fearing the party of the circumcision. 13 The rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, "If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?

There is no division in Christ and outside of Christ is there another way?
 

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Joh 2:21 But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

Luk 17:21 "nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you."

1Co 6:19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
Acts 1:4-8 NASB - 4 Gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for what the Father had promised, "Which," He said, "you heard of from Me; 5 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now." 6 So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, "Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?" 7 He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; 8 but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth."

Acts 2:1-4 NASB - 1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.

Acts 10:9-48 NASB - 9 On the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. 10 But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance; 11 and he saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground, 12 and there were in it all kinds of four-footed animals and crawling creatures of the earth and birds of the air. 13 A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and eat!" 14 But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything unholy and unclean." 15 Again a voice came to him a second time, "What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy." 16 This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into the sky. 17 Now while Peter was greatly perplexed in mind as to what the vision which he had seen might be, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions for Simon's house, appeared at the gate; 18 and calling out, they were asking whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was staying there. 19 While Peter was reflecting on the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men are looking for you. 20 "But get up, go downstairs and accompany them without misgivings, for I have sent them Myself." 21 Peter went down to the men and said, "Behold, I am the one you are looking for; what is the reason for which you have come?" 22 They said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous and God-fearing man well spoken of by the entire nation of the Jews, was divinely directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and hear a message from you." 23 So he invited them in and gave them lodging. And on the next day he got up and went away with them, and some of the brethren from Joppa accompanied him. 24 On the following day he entered Caesarea. Now Cornelius was waiting for them and had called together his relatives and close friends. 25 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, and fell at his feet and worshiped him. 26 But Peter raised him up, saying, "Stand up; I too am just a man." 27 As he talked with him, he entered and found many people assembled. 28 And he said to them, "You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a man who is a Jew to associate with a foreigner or to visit him; and yet God has shown me that I should not call any man unholy or unclean. 29 "That is why I came without even raising any objection when I was sent for. So I ask for what reason you have sent for me." 30 Cornelius said, "Four days ago to this hour, I was praying in my house during the ninth hour; and behold, a man stood before me in shining garments, 31 and he said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God. 32 'Therefore send to Joppa and invite Simon, who is also called Peter, to come to you; he is staying at the house of Simon the tanner by the sea.' 33 "So I sent for you immediately, and you have been kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here present before God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord." 34 Opening his mouth, Peter said: "I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality, 35 but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right is welcome to Him. 36 "The word which He sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all)-- 37 you yourselves know the thing which took place throughout all Judea, starting from Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed. 38 "You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him. 39 "We are witnesses of all the things He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They also put Him to death by hanging Him on a cross. 40 "God raised Him up on the third day and granted that He become visible, 41 not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen beforehand by God, that is, to us who ate and drank with Him after He arose from the dead. 42 "And He ordered us to preach to the people, and solemnly to testify that this is the One who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead. 43 "Of Him all the prophets bear witness that through His name everyone who believes in Him receives forgiveness of sins." 44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who were listening to the message. 45 All the circumcised believers who came with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also. 46 For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God. Then Peter answered, 47 "Surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did, can he?" 48 And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on for a few days.
 

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You are making this more complicated than it is.


The gospel is for all with no distinction of Jew or Gentile.
Matt. 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
Mark 16:15 And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
There is no distinction in those passages.

Paul condemns Peter for showing distinction which is not the truth of the gospel.

Gal. 2:11 But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For prior to the coming of certain men from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof, fearing the party of the circumcision. 13 The rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of all, "If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?

There is no division in Christ and outside of Christ is there another way?
The gospel does not say don't obey God's commands. But everything we do is to be done in love, whether to Jew or Gentile. The gospel is not the same as the Law of God by which a person is convicted of sin and comes to understand their need for Jesus to be their Savior.

Ephesians 2:8-9 NASB.
 

Dan Emanuel

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The gospel does not say don't obey God's commands. But everything we do is to be done in love, whether to Jew or Gentile. The gospel is not the same as the Law of God by which a person is convicted of sin and comes to understand their need for Jesus to be their Savior.

Ephesians 2:8-9 NASB.
The gospel is a story about what happen's to you when you believe in Jesus. John 3:16 KJV.

The gospel doesn't say anything at all about "God's command's." And if anything at all distract's from the gospel being a story about what happen's to you when you believe in Jesus, your somehow losing the plot of the story.


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Jacob

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The gospel is a story about what happen's to you when you believe in Jesus. John 3:16 KJV.

The gospel doesn't say anything at all about "God's command's." And if anything at all distract's from the gospel being a story about what happen's to you when you believe in Jesus, your somehow losing the plot of the story.


Daniel
I do know we are to repent in order to be saved. We repent of having broken God's commands. Is the gospel something to believe or something to respond to?
 

Jacob

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Agreed.

1 Jn. 2:3 By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

When you say commandments, which are you referring to? OT or NT?
All of God's commands are God's commands. So I am not saying one or the other.
 

turbosixx

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All of God's commands are God's commands. So I am not saying one or the other.

How can we keep them all, for instance:

Duet. 22:22 "If a man is found lying with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.
 

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How can we keep them all, for instance:

Duet. 22:22 "If a man is found lying with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.
That is what should happen. But how is it possible that a person can confess their sin in repentance, and receive forgiveness of sins and the free gift of eternal life because of Christ's substitution death on the cross. He defeated death and lives forevermore. Now we can live in newness of life, even unto life eternal. So this is not saying this is not a command of God. However, even then, under the Law (if there still is an under the Law) no one should die on the witness of just one person. There must be two or three witnesses, according to the Law. But so that no one can say it is okay I confessed this sin, or even knew that I could, so that is why I transgressed God's Law.
 

turbosixx

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That is what should happen. But how is it possible that a person can confess their sin in repentance, and receive forgiveness of sins and the free gift of eternal life because of Christ's substitution death on the cross. He defeated death and lives forevermore. Now we can live in newness of life, even unto life eternal. So this is not saying this is not a command of God. However, even then, under the Law (if there still is an under the Law) no one should die on the witness of just one person. There must be two or three witnesses, according to the Law. But so that no one can say it is okay I confessed this sin, or even knew that I could, so that is why I transgressed God's Law.

The law of Christ has done away with the old law.

Rom. 7:6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

If you will notice, Jesus took the written letter of the law and placed it within us.

Matt. 5:27 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery'; 28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Heb. 8:8....."says the Lord, When I will effect a new covenant With the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 9 Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers On the day when I took them by the hand To lead them out of the land of Egypt;.... says the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds, And I will write them on their hearts.
 

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The law of Christ has done away with the old law.

Rom. 7:6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

If you will notice, Jesus took the written letter of the law and placed it within us.

Matt. 5:27 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery'; 28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Heb. 8:8....."says the Lord, When I will effect a new covenant With the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 9 Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers On the day when I took them by the hand To lead them out of the land of Egypt;.... says the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds, And I will write them on their hearts.
I know there is a new covenant, but I don't know that there is a new law.

Have you read the entire Bible?

I don't know if there is such a thing as new covenant law.
Law and Command

(What is) the new covenant?

The new covenant, the Ten Commandments & the Law, a change of law & the law of Christ

What does "through the Law I died to the Law" mean"?

What is this change of law?

Discussion about the new covenant
 

achduke

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The law of Christ has done away with the old law.

Rom. 7:6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

If you will notice, Jesus took the written letter of the law and placed it within us.

Matt. 5:27 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery'; 28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Heb. 8:8....."says the Lord, When I will effect a new covenant With the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 9 Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers On the day when I took them by the hand To lead them out of the land of Egypt;.... says the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds, And I will write them on their hearts.

The law is not done away with. Now the holy spirit guides us through it. For once you have the holy spirit you follow the spirit and not fleshly carnal desires.
 

turbosixx

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I know there is a new covenant, but I don't know that there is a new law.

God gave them the Mosaical law when they came out of Egypt, right. Looks to me like law and covenant are interchangeable.

Heb. 8:8 "Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, When I will effect a new covenant With the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 9 Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers On the day when I took them by the hand To lead them out of the land of Egypt; For they did not continue in My covenant,

9:18 Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood. 19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to 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 you."

If the Mosaical law was not a covenant, you will have to explain to me how it's not.
 

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God gave them the Mosaical law when they came out of Egypt, right. Looks to me like law and covenant are interchangeable.

Heb. 8:8 "Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, When I will effect a new covenant With the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 9 Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers On the day when I took them by the hand To lead them out of the land of Egypt; For they did not continue in My covenant,

9:18 Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood. 19 For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to 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 you."

If the Mosaical law was not a covenant, you will have to explain to me how it's not.
The Law of Moses is associated with the old covenant.
 

turbosixx

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The law is not done away with. Now the holy spirit guides us through it. For once you have the holy spirit you follow the spirit and not fleshly carnal desires.

You'll have to give me more explanation if you are saying we are under the Mosaical law.

Gal. 3: 23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed. 24 Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
 
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