1 Peter 1:20

Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

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Word by word — the Greek

Word	Greek	Strong’s	Meaning
verily	μὲν men	G3303	properly · particle
foreordained	προεγνωσμένου proegnōsmenou	G4267	to know beforehand · verb — perfect passive participle, genitive singular masculine
before	πρὸ pro	G4253	"fore" · preposition
foundation	καταβολῆς katabolēs	G2602	a deposition · noun — genitive singular feminine
world	κόσμου, kosmou	G2889	orderly arrangement · noun — genitive singular masculine
but	δὲ de	G1161	but · conjunction
manifest	φανερωθέντος phanerōthentos	G5319	to render apparent (literally or figuratively) · verb — aorist passive participle, genitive singular masculine
in	ἐπ᾽ ep᾽	G1909	properly · preposition
last	ἐσχάτου eschatou	G2078	farthest · adjective — genitive singular masculine
times	χρόνων chronōn	G5550	a space of time (in general · noun — genitive plural masculine
for	δι᾽ di᾽	G1223	through (in very wide applications · preposition
you	ὑμᾶς hymâs	G5209	you (as the objective of a verb or preposition)

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Cross-references

Ephesians 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
2 Timothy 1:9-10 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was giv…
Hebrews 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away si…
Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation o…
Titus 1:2-3 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Hebrews 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Micah 5:2 But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be…
Ephesians 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all t…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 1:13-23

Here the apostle begins his exhortations to those whose glorious state he had before described, thereby instructing us that Christianity is a doctrine according to godliness, designed to make us not only wiser, but better. I. He exhorts them to sobriety and holiness. 1. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, etc., Pe1 1:13. As if he had said, "Wherefore, since you are so honoured and distinguished, as above, Gird up the loins of your mind. You have a journey to go, a race to run, a warfare to accomplish, and a great work to do; as the traveller, the racer, the warrior, and the labourer, gather in, and gird up, their long and loose garments, that they may be more ready, prompt, and expedit…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Peter 1:20

God's eternal foreordination of Christ's redeeming sacrifice, and completion of it in these last times for us, are an additional obligation on us to our maintaining a holy walk, considering how great things have been thus done for us. Peter's language in the history corresponds with this here: an undesigned coincidence and mark of genuineness. Redemption was no afterthought, or remedy of an unforeseen evil, devised at the time of its arising. God's foreordaining of the Redeemer refutes the slander that, on the Christian theory, there is a period of four thousand years of nothing but an incensed God. God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world (Eph 1:4). manifest--in His incar…

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Adam Clarke on 1 Peter 1:20

Who verily was foreordained - Προεγνωσμενου· Foreknown; appointed in the Divine purpose to be sent into the world, because infinitely approved by the Divine justice. Before the foundation of the world - Before the law was given, or any sacrifice prescribed by it. Its whole sacrificial system was appointed in reference to this foreappointed Lamb, and consequently from him derived all its significance and virtue. The phrase καταβολη κοσμου, foundation of the world, occurs often in the New Testament, and is supposed by some learned men and good critics to signify the commencement of the Jewish state. Perhaps it may have this meaning in Mat 13:35; Luk 11:50; Eph 1:4; Heb 4:3; Heb 9:26. But if we…

The Church Fathers

"Verily foreknown before the foundation of the world." [1 Peter 1:20] Inasmuch as He was foreknown before every creature, because He was Christ. "But manifested in the last times" by the generation of a body.
— Clement of Alexandria ((as quoted by Cassiodorus)), From the Latin Translation of Cassiodorus

We have been predestined by God, before the world was, (to arise) in the extreme end of the times. And so we are trained by God for the purpose of chastising, and (so to say) emasculating, the world.
— Tertullian, On the Apparel of Women Book II

I think not that you are ignorant that the living church is the body of Christ (for the Scripture, says, "God created man male and female;" [Genesis 1:27; cf. Ephesians 5:22-23] the male is Christ, the female the church,) and that the Books and the Apostles teach that the church is not of the present, but from the beginning. For it was spiritual, as was also our Jesus, and was made manifest at the end of the days in order to save you. [1 Peter 1:20]
— Pseudo-Clement, Second Epistle To The Corinthians (Pseudo-Clement)

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Sacrifice — The offering up of sacrifices is to be regarded as a divine institution. It did not originate with man. God himself appointed it as the mode in which acceptable worship was to be offered to him by…
Atonement · .Divinely ordained — .Divinely ordained
Atonement, The · Foreordained — Foreordained
Predestination · 1:18; — 1:18;

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

1 Peter 1:20

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 1:13-23

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Peter 1:20

Adam Clarke on 1 Peter 1:20

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

1 Peter 1:20

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 1:13-23

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Peter 1:20

Adam Clarke on 1 Peter 1:20

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on 1 Peter 1:20

John Calvin on 1 Peter 1:17-22

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 1 Peter 1:20