1 Peter 1:9
sReceiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
κομιζόμενοι τὸ τέλος τῆς πίστεως ὑμῶν, σωτηρίαν ψυχῶν.
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Romans 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Acts 15:11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
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.
Hebrews 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Hebrews 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Hebrews 6:12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
1 Peter 5:4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
either this word is to be taken improperly, and by an enallage, the future being put for the present tense; q.d. Being about to receive; or rather properly, in the present tense, and then it intimates the certainty of the thing spoken of.
i.e. the scope to which faith tends, or the reward of faith.
either:
1. Salvation more generally taken, which is begun in this life, Eph 2:8 Tit 3:5; or rather:
2. Complete final salvation in the other, as 1Pe 1:5: and then the sense is, either, ye rejoice that ye shall certainly receive the full salvation of your souls, or, ye rejoice that ye do receive that salvation, viz. in the promises of it, in those graces of the Spirit wrought in you, which begin this salvation, and are the pledges of it, and in the certain assurance of it.
i.e. by a usual synecdoche, the salvation of your persons.