Verse 25
1 Peter 2:25
American Standard Version
25
For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Original Language Text
greek
ἦτε γὰρ ὡς πρόβατα ⸀πλανώμενοι, ἀλλὰ ἐπεστράφητε νῦν ἐπὶ τὸν ποιμένα καὶ ἐπίσκοπον τῶν ψυχῶν ὑμῶν.
English Translation
For you were like straying sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 2 Context
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Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil spea...
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as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto...
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if ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious:
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unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God (Elohim) elect, precious,
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ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spir...
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Because it is contained in scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: A...
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For you therefore that believe is the preciousness: but for such as disbelieve, The stone which the...
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and, A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence; for they stumble at the word, being disobedien...
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But ye are a elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God (Elohim)`s] own posses...
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who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God (Elohim): who had not obtained mercy,...
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11
Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against t...
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having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers,...
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Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord`s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
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or unto governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to them that do well.
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15
For so is the will of God (Elohim), that by well-doing ye should put to silence the ignorance of foo...
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as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God (Elohim).
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Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God (Elohim). Honor the king.
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Servants, [be] in subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but als...
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For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God (Elohim) a man endureth griefs, suffering wrong...
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For what glory is it, if, when ye sin, and are buffeted [for it], ye shall take it patiently? but if...
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For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye s...
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who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
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who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered threatened not; but committed [himself...
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who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live...
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For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls...