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7 Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who1 are disobedient,
a“The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone,”  
8 and
a“A stone of stumbling
And a rock of offense.” bThey stumble, being disobedient to the word, cto which they also were appointed.  
9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of adarkness into His marvelous light;  
10 awho once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.  

Living Before the World

11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts awhich war against the soul,  
12 ahaving your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, bthey may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.  

Submission to Government

13 aTherefore submit yourselves to every1 ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether to the king as supreme,  
14 or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good.
15 For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men—
16 aas free, yet not busing liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.  
17 Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear aGod. Honor the king.  

Submission to Masters

18 aServants, be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.  
19 For this is acommendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully.  
20 For awhat credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God.  
21 For ato this you were called, because Christ also suffered for1 us, bleaving us an example, that you should follow His steps: 
22 “Who acommitted no sin,
Nor was deceit found in His mouth”;  
23 awho, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but bcommitted Himself to Him who judges righteously;  
24 awho Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, bthat we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—cby whose stripes you were healed.  
25 For ayou were like sheep going astray, but have now returned bto the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. 
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Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
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1 Peter 2:9

But ye (umeiv de). In contrast with the disobedient ones.

An elect race (genov eklekton). From Isaiah 43:20. The blood relation of the spiritual Israel (not the Jewish race) through the new birth (I Peter 1:23).

A royal priesthood (basileion ierateuma). From Exodus 19:6 (cf. Revelation 1:6; Revelation 5:10). The official in Christian churches is presbuterov=episcopov, not iereuv. We are all iereiv (priests). Cf. I Peter 2:5.

A holy nation (eqnov agion). Also from Exodus 19:6, but here applied, not to the national Israel, but to the spiritual Israel of believers (both Jews and Gentiles).

A people for God's own possession (laov eiv peripoihsin). The idea here occurs in Exodus 19:5; Deuteronomy 7:6; Deuteronomy 14:2; Deuteronomy 26:18, where we have laov periousiov as in Titus 2:14 (alone in the N.T.), and in Malachi 3:17 we find eiv peripoihsin (for a possession). Periousiov laov is a people over and above the others and peripoihsiv is a possession in a special sense (Ephesians 1:14). See Paul's use of periepoihsato in Acts 20:28. The old rendering, "a peculiar people," had this idea of possession, for "peculiar" is from pecus (Latin for flock).

That ye may shew forth (opwv ecaggeilhte). Purpose clause with opwv, rather than ina, with the first aorist active subjunctive of ecaggellw, old verb, to tell out, here alone in N.T.

The excellencies (tav aretav). From Isaiah 43:21. Old word for any preeminence (moral, intellectual, military), often for "virtue," but not in that sense in the O.T. or the N.T. The word has the sense of moral worth in II Peter 1:3, II Peter 1:5; Philippians 4:8; and the Apocrypha. In Isaiah (here quoted) it means praise and glory to God. So also Isaiah 42:12. See Acts 2:11 ta megaleia tou qeou (the mighty works of God).

Darkness (skotouv). Heathenism.

His marvellous light (to qaumaston autou fwv). Christianity. For qaumaston (from qaumazw) see Matthew 21:42. For the change from heathenism to Christianity see Colossians 1:12; Ephesians 5:8-14.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Peter 2:9:

Matthew 16:18
Acts 20:28
Ephesians 1:14
Philippians 4:8
1 Thessalonians 5:9
Titus 2:14
1 Peter 1:1
1 Peter 2:5
2 Peter 1:3
2 Peter 1:11

 

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