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"1": "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect exiles of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,",
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"2": "according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying of the Spirit for obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multipled to you.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
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"3": "Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his great mercy, has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,",
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"4": "for an imperishable and undefiled and unfading inheritance, reserved in heaven for you,",
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"5": "who are protected by the power of God through faith, for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last times.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"6": "In this you greatly rejoice, if now it is necessary to have been distressed a little bit in various trials.",
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"7": "so that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes. But, being tested by fire, it might be found to result in praise, and glory, and honor at the revealing of Jesus Christ,\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"8": "whom not having seen, you love. In whom, not seeing him now, but believing, you exult with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,",
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"9": "receiving for yourselves the result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.",
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"10": "The prophets searched and inquired carefully about this salvation, who prophesied about this grace in you,\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"11": "examining about whom or of what time the Spirit of Christ in them was revealing, testifying beforehand about the sufferings of Christ and the glory after that.",
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"12": "It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in those things which have now been declared to you by those who proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—into which things angels long to look.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
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"13": "So having girded up the loins of your mind, being fully sober, hope in the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,",
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"14": "as obedient children, not being conformed to your former desires in your ignorance.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"15": "But as the one who called you is holy, you also become holy in all your behavior.",
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"16": "For it is written, “You will be holy, because I am holy.”",
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"17": "And if you call “Father” the one judging impartially according to the work of each one, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your journey,\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"18": "knowing that you have been redeemed not with perishable silver or gold from your futile behavior handed down from your fathers,",
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"19": "but with the precious blood of Christ, as an unblemished and spotless lamb,\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"20": "having been foreknown before the foundation of the world, but he has been revealed in these last times for your sake,",
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"21": "those through him believing in God, who has raised him from the dead and has given him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"22": "Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth, for sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,\\f + \\ft Some older versions have\\fqa You made your souls pure by obedience to the truth through the Spirit\\fqa*.\\f*",
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"23": "having been born again, not from perishable seed, but from imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"24": "For,\n\\q\n“All flesh is like grass,\n\\q\nand all its glory is like the flower of the grass.\n\\q\nThe grass was dried up, and its flower fell off,\n\\q",
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"25": "but the word of the Lord remains forever.”\n\\m\nAnd this is the word that has been proclaimed to you.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"front": "\\p"
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