SIMILARITIES between first peter and paul
RSV 1:2 chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ
1:2 .... Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ....
1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire....
1:7 ....might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind,
1:13 .... be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit....
2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
RSV 2:6 For it stands in scripture: "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and he who believes in him will not be put to shame."
2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
2:9 ....that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
2:10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
2:13-14 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
2:14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
2:16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
2:18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
3:1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands....
3:1 ....if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
3:8a Finally, be ye all of one mind....
3:8b .... having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
3:9a Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing
3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
3:18a For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh....
3:18b ....that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
3:22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
4:2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
4:8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves...
4:9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
4:10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth....
4:13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
4:15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
4:19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility....
5:9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
5:12 ....I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.
5:14a Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity.....
5:14b .... Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.
RSV 1:2 chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ
- 2 THESSALONIANS 2:13 .... God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.
1:2 .... Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
- ROMANS 1:7 Grace to you and peace
1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ....
- RSV 2 CORINTHIANS 1:3 and EPHESIANS 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire....
- 1 CORINTHIANS 3:13 the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
1:7 ....might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
- ROMANS 2:10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good....
1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
- ROMANS 1:2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind,
- EPHESIANS 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth,
1:13 .... be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
- 1 THESSALONIANS 5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
- ROMANS 12:2 And be not conformed to this world....
1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
- 1 THESSALONIANS 4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
- 1 CORINTHIANS 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
- ROMANS 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit....
- ACTS 15:9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
- ROMANS 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
RSV 2:6 For it stands in scripture: "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and he who believes in him will not be put to shame."
- ROMANS 9:33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
- ROMANS 9:32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
2:9 ....that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
- ACTS 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light,
- 1 THESSALONIANS 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
2:10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
- ROMANS 9:25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
- ROMANS 12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
2:13-14 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
- ROMANS 13:1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
2:14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
- ROMANS 13:4 ....But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.
2:16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
- 1 CORINTHIANS 7:22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
- GALATIANS 5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
2:18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
- EPHESIANS 6:5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
- 2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin;
2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
- ROMANS 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3:1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands....
- EPHESIANS 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
- COLOSSIANS 3:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
- TITUS 2:5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands....
3:1 ....if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
- 1 CORINTHIANS 7:16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?
3:8a Finally, be ye all of one mind....
- ROMANS 12:16 Be of the same mind one toward another.
3:8b .... having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
- EPHESIANS 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
3:9a Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing
- 1 CORINTHIANS 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer....
3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
- ROMANS 12:14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
3:18a For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh....
- COLOSSIANS 1:22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
3:18b ....that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
- ROMANS 8:11 ....he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
3:22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
- EPHESIANS 1:20-21 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
4:2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
- 2 CORINTHIANS 5:15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
- TITUS 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
4:8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves...
- COLOSSIANS 3:14 And above all these things put on charity,
4:9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
- 1 TIMOTHY 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless.... given to hospitality,
- TITUS 1:8 But a lover of hospitality....
4:10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
- 1 CORINTHIANS 4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth....
- ROMANS 12:6-7 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; or ministry, let us wait on our ministering:
4:13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
- 2 CORINTHIANS 1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ....7 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
- ROMANS 8:17-18 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
4:15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
- 2 THESSALONIANS 3:11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
- 1 TIMOTHY 5:13 And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
4:19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
- 2 TIMOTHY 1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
- 1 TIMOTHY 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous....8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
- TITUS 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility....
- EPHESIANS 4:2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
5:9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
- ACTS 14:22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
- 1 CORINTHIANS 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man:
5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
- 1 THESSALONIANS 2:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
5:12 ....I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.
- 1 CORINTHIANS 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
5:14a Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity.....
- ROMANS 16:16 Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.
5:14b .... Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.
- EPHESIANS 6:23 Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.