A Word to the Suffering
you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:5 (NKJV)
Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, 1 Peter 2:4 (NKJV)
AS the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God. Psalms 42:1 (NKJV)
Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, 1 Peter 1:22 (NKJV)
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, 1 Peter 1:6 (NKJV)
to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 1 Peter 1:4 (ESV)
elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. 1 Peter 1:2 (NKJV)
PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To the pilgrims of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 1 Peter 1:1 (NKJV)