1 Peter 1:8-9

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Peter 1:9

Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. The present participle "receiving" ( κομιζόμενοι ) implies that the believer realizes the deep blessing of salvation gradually while he is being saved as one of οἱ σωζόμενοι ( Acts 2:47 ). Salvation is present as well as future. "By grace ye are saved through faith" ( Ephesians 2:8 ); "According to his mercy he saved us" ( Titus 3:5 ). God's elect receive it in various measures now; in its blessed fullness it will... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Peter 1:8

Whom having not seen, ye love - This Epistle was addressed to those who were “strangers scattered abroad,” (See the notes at 1 Peter 1:1) and it is evident that they had not personally seen the Lord Jesus. Yet they had heard of his character, his preaching, his sacrifice for sin, and his resurrection and ascension, and they had learned to love him:(1) It is possible to love one whom we have not seen. Thus, we may love God, whom no “eye hath seen,” (compare 1 John 4:20) and thus we may love a... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Peter 1:9

Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls - The result or object of your faith; that is, what your faith is designed and adapted to secure. Compare the notes at Romans 10:4. The word rendered receiving is used here as indicating that they would surely obtain that. They even now had such peace and joy in believing, that it furnished undoubted evidence that they would be saved; and such that it might be said that even now they were saved. The condition of one who is a true... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Peter 1:8-9

1 Peter 1:8-9. Whom having not seen Ειδοτες , known, that is, personally in the flesh; ye love Namely, on account of his amiable character, and for the great things he hath done and suffered for you, and the great benefits he hath bestowed on you. It is very possible, as Doddridge observes, that among these dispersed Christians, there might be some who had visited Jerusalem while Christ was there, and might have seen, or even conversed with him; but as the greater part had not, St.... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 1:1-12

1:1-2:10 HIGH STATUS FOR GOD’S PEOPLEThe character of salvation (1:1-12)Peter’s readers are ‘God’s scattered people’, an expression that Peter uses with a wide meaning. In relation to their place of local residence, they are God’s people scattered throughout northern Asia Minor. But in relation to heaven, they are God’s people scattered in a foreign land. Their true homeland is heaven, and the foreign land is the world. They really belong to God. He chose them and cleansed them, with the aim... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Peter 1:8

seen . App-133 . love . App-135 . see . App-133 . believing . App-150 . unspeakable . Greek. aneklaletos. Only here. full of glory . Literally glorified. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Peter 1:9

souls . App-110 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Peter 1:8

whom not having seen ye love; on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory;Dummelow thought there was a "generous touch"[23] on Peter's part in this. The apostle who has seen, admires, and appreciates the love and joy of the brethren who have not seen(!) reminds us of the words of Jesus, "Blessed are they that have not seen, yet have believed" (John 20:29). Despite the unobtrusive nature of it, there is here a positive implication... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Peter 1:9

receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.End of your faith ... This means the goal or purpose of faith, that which is the ultimate result of the obedience of faith.Paine, basing his conclusion on the construction of the Greek, says, "This is not a future, but a present reference,"[25] thus making the salvation to be that which they already had. Of course, this harmonizes with the view in Acts that those who were "being saved" were added to the church (Acts 2:47). There... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Peter 1:8

1 Peter 1:8. Whom having not seen,— It is very possible that, among these dispersed Christians, there might have been some who had visited Jerusalem while Christ was there, and might have seen or conversed with him. However, St. Peter speaks according to the usual apostolical manner, as if they all had not. See John 20:29. 2 Corinthians 5:6-7. Hebrews 1:14. read more

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