King James Version
What Does 1 Peter 1:25 Mean?
“But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.”
Context
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: For: or, For that
25
But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(25) **The word which by the gospel is preached**.—An incorrect rendering of the original tense. It literally runs, *And this is the word which was preached unto you.* The whole magnificent peroration of this paragraph, as of the last, leads up to this: that, in the opinion of St. Peter, the Gospel, as delivered by St. Paul and his followers—the Gospel of equality, or rather of unity between Jew and Gentile in Jesus Christ—was the living and supreme abiding revelation of the will of God! Well may the Tübingen school wish to disprove the genuineness of this Epistle!
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
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Theological Significance
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