Bible in a Year.

On day 352, 1 Peter 1-2 calls us to holiness and confidence in the midst of trials, encouraging us to live as a people set apart for God. Colossians 3-4 teaches about Christian behavior in the home, workplace, and community, while Proverbs 30:10-14 warns against malice and arrogance, offering practical guidance for daily life.

Chapter 1

1. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers dispersed through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect,

2. According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, unto the sanctification 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, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

4. Unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that can not fade, reserved in heaven for you,

5. Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

6. Wherein you shall greatly rejoice, if now you must be for a little time made sorrowful in divers temptations:

7. That the trial of your faith (much more precious than gold which is tried by the fire) may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

8. Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now, though you see him not, you believe: and believing shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorified;

9. Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

10. Of which salvation the prophets have inquired and diligently searched, who prophesied of the grace to come in you.

11. Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them did signify: when it foretold those sufferings that are in Christ, and the glories that should follow:

12. To whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to you they ministered those things which are now declared to you by them that have preached the gospel to you, the Holy Ghost being sent down from heaven, on whom the angels desire to look.

13. Wherefore having the loins of your mind girt up, being sober, trust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

14. As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance:

15. But according to him that hath called you, who is holy, be you also in all manner of conversation holy:

16. Because it is written: You shall be holy, for I am holy.

17. And if you invoke as Father him who, without respect of persons, judgeth according to every one's work: converse in fear during the time of your sojourning here.

18. Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:

19. But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled,

20. Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the last times for you,

21. Who through him are faithful in God, who raised him up from the dead, and hath given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

22. Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:

23. Being born again not of corruptible seed, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth for ever.

24. For all flesh is as grass; and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered, and the flower thereof is fallen away.

25. But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel hath been preached unto you.

Chapter 2

1. Wherefore laying away all malice, and all guile, and dissimulations, and envies, and all detractions,

2. As newborn babes, desire the rational milk without guile, that thereby you may grow unto salvation:

3. If so be you have tasted that the Lord is sweet.

4. Unto whom coming, as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen and made honourable by God:

5. Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

6. Wherefore it is said in the scripture: Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious. And he that shall believe in him, shall not be confounded.

7. To you therefore that believe, he is honour: but to them that believe not, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is made the head of the corner:

8. And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of scandal, to them who stumble at the word, neither do believe, whereunto also they are set.

9. But you are a chosen generation, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people: that you may declare his virtues, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

10. Who in time past were not a people: but are now the people of God. Who had not obtained mercy; but now have obtained mercy.

11. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

12. Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works, which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation.

13. Be ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake: whether it be to the king as excelling;

14. Or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of the good:

15. For so is the will of God, that by doing well you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

16. As free, and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.

17. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

18. Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

19. For this is thankworthy, if for conscience towards God, a man endure sorrows, suffering wrongfully.

20. For what glory is it, if committing sin, and being buffeted for it, you endure? But if doing well you suffer patiently; this is thankworthy before God.

21. For unto this are you called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example that you should follow his steps.

22. Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.

23. Who, when he was reviled, did not revile: when he suffered, he threatened not: but delivered himself to him that judged him unjustly.

24. Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.

25. For you were as sheep going astray; but you are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.

Chapter 3

1. Therefore, if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above; where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God:

2. Mind the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth.

3. For you are dead; and your life is hid with Christ in God.

4. When Christ shall appear, who is your life, then you also shall appear with him in glory.

5. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is the service of idols.

6. For which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of unbelief,

7. In which you also walked some time, when you lived in them.

8. But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth.

9. Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,

10. And putting on the new, him who is renewed unto knowledge, according to the image of him that created him.

11. Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian nor Scythian, bond nor free. But Christ is all, and in all.

12. Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy, and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience:

13. Bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another: even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also.

14. But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection:

15. And let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, wherein also you are called in one body: and be ye thankful.

16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly, in all wisdom: teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.

17. All whatsoever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

18. Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.

19. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter towards them.

20. Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing to the Lord.

21. Fathers, provoke not your children to indignation, lest they be discouraged.

22. Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not serving to the eye, as pleasing men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.

23. Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart, as to the Lord, and not to men:

24. Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ.

25. For he that doth wrong, shall receive for that which he hath done wrongfully: and there is no respect of persons with God.

Chapter 4

1. Masters, do to your servants that which is just and equal: knowing that you also have a master in heaven.

2. Be instant in prayer; watching in it with thanksgiving:

3. Praying withal for us also, that God may open unto us a door of speech to speak the mystery of Christ (for which also I am bound;)

4. That I may make it manifest as I ought to speak.

5. Walk with wisdom towards them that are without, redeeming the time.

6. Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

7. All the things that concern me, Tychicus, our dearest brother, and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord, will make known to you,

8. Whom I have sent to you for this same purpose, that he may know the things that concern you, and comfort your hearts,

9. With Onesimus, a most beloved and faithful brother, who is one of you. All things that are done here, they shall make known to you.

10. Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, saluteth you, and Mark, the cousin german of Barnabus, touching whom you have received commandments; if he come unto you, receive him:

11. And Jesus, that is called Justus: who are of the circumcision: these only are my helpers in the kingdom of God; who have been a comfort to me.

12. Epaphras saluteth you, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, who is always solicitous for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect, and full in all the will of God.

13. For I bear him testimony that he hath much labour for you, and for them that are at Laodicea, and them at Hierapolis.

14. Luke, the most dear physician, saluteth you: and Demas.

15. Salute the brethren who are at Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church that is in his house.

16. And when this epistle shall have been read with you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans: and that you read that which is of the Laodiceans.

17. And say to Archippus: Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

18. The salutation of Paul with my own hand. Be mindful of my bands. Grace be with you. Amen

10. Accuse not a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou fall.

11. There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

12. A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

13. A generation, whose eyes are lofty, and their eyelids lifted up on high.

14. A generation, that for teeth hath swords, and grindeth with their jaw teeth, to devour the needy from off the earth, and the poor from among men.