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1 Peter 1:2
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Peter writes as an apostle to scattered believers across five provinces of Asia Minor, opening his letter with a greeting that immediately grounds their identity before any exhortation begins.
The words — prognōsin (πρὸγνωσιν) is the engine of the verse: not vague pre-awareness but the specific, purposeful foreknowledge that initiates the chain of sanctification, obedience, and sprinkling.
The thread — The same election-before-time logic appears in Ephesians 1:4 (chosen before the foundation of the world to be holy) and 2 Thessalonians 2:13 (chosen from the beginning); the "sprinkled blood" language echoes Hebrews 12:24.
Why it lands — The verse places the reader's standing entirely outside their own effort: foreknowledge, sanctification, and sprinkling are all acts done to them, so the only response the text models is receiving grace and peace as already-given.
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The Greek words
King James Version
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Cross-references
- 2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
- Ephesians 1:4 For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
- Hebrews 12:24 to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
- 1 Peter 1:22 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
- Romans 11:2 God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:
- Acts 2:23 He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.
- John 15:16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
- 2 Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
- Romans 8:29 For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
- Romans 16:26 but now revealed and made known through the writings of the prophets by the command of the eternal God, in order to lead all nations to the obedience that comes from faith—