Introduction to Wise Owl Lady's Mind, Heart, and Body Journey

The First Epistle General of Peter Chapter I

[ 1 The apostle's address; 3 He blesseth God for their hope of a blessed immortality: 10 salvation in Christ foretold by the prophets of old, &c.] 

PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the 
strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia,
Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 
2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God
the Father, through sanctifications of the Spirit, unto 
obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus 
Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord 
Jesus Christ, which, according to his abundant
mercy, hath begotten us again unto a lively hope 
by resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, 
and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith
unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.
6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a 
season (if need be) ye are in heaviness through 
manifold temptations:
7 That the trial of your faith, being much more 
precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be
tried with fire, might be found unto praise, and honor,
and glory, at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, 
though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice
with joy unspeakable, and full of glory:
9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the 
salvation of your souls. 
10 Of which salvation the prophets have inquired
and searched diligently, who prophesied of 
the grace that should come unto you:
11 Searching what, or what manner of time, the 
Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, 
when it testified beforehand the sufferings of 
Christ, and the glory that should follow. 
12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, 
but unto us they did minister the things which
are now reported unto you by them that have preached 
the gospel unto you, with the Holy Ghost sent down from 
heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be 
sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be 
brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves 
according to the former lusts of your ignorance:
15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so 
be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
17 And if ye call on the Father, who without
respect of persons judgeth according to every man's 
work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed
with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain
conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as 
of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
20 Who verily was fore-ordained before the 
foundation of the world, but was manifest in these
last times for you.
21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised
him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that 
your faith and hope might be in God. 
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying 
the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned
love of the brethren, see that ye love one another 
with a pure heart fervently;
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which 
liveth and abideth for ever.
24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory 
of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth,
and the flower thereof falleth away:
25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. 
And this is the word by which the gospel is preached 
unto you.