1 Peter 2:9
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the
praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
a. NLT: But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people.
You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result,
you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness
into his wonderful light.
b. NIV: But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called
you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
c. YLT: And ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy
nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who
out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;
d. Amplified Bible Classic: But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a
dedicated nation, [God’s] own purchased, special people, that you may set forth
the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him Who
called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
e. Worrell Translation: But ye are “an elect race, a kingly priesthood,
a holy nation,” a people for a possession, that ye may show forth the
excellencies of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
f. Wuest Translation: But as for you, you are a race chosen out,
kings-priests, a set-apart nation, a people formed for [God’s own] possession,
in order that you might proclaim abroad the excellencies of the One who out of
darkness called you into participation in His marvelous light.
1. “But ye are a chosen generation…”
a. But [Strong: 1161 de deh a primary particle (adversative
or continuative); but, and, etc.:--also, and, but, moreover, now (often
unexpressed in English).]
b. ye [Strong: 5210 humeis hoo-mice' irregular plural of
4771; you (as subjective of verb):--ye (yourselves), you.]
c. [are] a chosen [Strong: 1588 eklektos ek-lek-tos' from
1586; select; by implication, favorite:--chosen, elect.]
d. generation [Strong: 1085 genos ghen'-os from 1096;
"kin" (abstract or concrete, literal or figurative, individual or
collective):--born, country(-man), diversity, generation, kind(-red), nation,
offspring, stock.]
2. “…a royal priesthood, an holy nation,
a. a royal [Strong: 934 basileios bas-il'-i-os from 935;
kingly (in nature):--royal.]
b. priesthood [Strong: 2406 hierateuma hee-er-at'-yoo-mah
from 2407; the priestly fraternity, i.e. sacerdotal order
(figuratively):--priesthood.]
1). This was the original desire of God for Israel after they came out
of the land of Egypt.
a). Exodua 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an
holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of
Israel.
2). Every born again man, woman, and child in the body of Christ is a
priest unto God.
a). 1 Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual
house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God
by Jesus Christ.
b). Revelation 1:4-6 John to the seven churches which are in Asia:
Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to
come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;
1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first
begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that
loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
1:6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him
be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
c. an holy [Strong: 40 hagios hag'-ee-os from hagos (an
awful thing) (compare 53, 2282); sacred (physically, pure, morally blameless or
religious, ceremonially, consecrated):--(most) holy (one, thing), saint.]
d. nation [Strong: 1484 ethnos eth'-nos probably from
1486; a race (as of the same habit), i.e. a tribe; specially, a foreign
(non-Jewish) one (usually, by implication, pagan):--Gentile, heathen, nation,
people.]
3. “…a peculiar people…”
a. [Strong: 1519 eis ice a primary preposition; to or
into (indicating the point reached or entered), of place, time, or
(figuratively) purpose (result, etc.); also in adverbial
phrases:--(abundant-)ly, against, among, as, at, (back-)ward, before, by,
concerning, + continual, + far more exceeding, for (intent, purpose), fore, +
forth, in (among, at, unto, -so much that, -to), to the intent that, + of one
mind, + never, of, (up-)on, + perish, + set at one again, (so) that,
therefore(-unto), throughout, til, to (be, the end, -ward), (here-)until(-to),
...ward, (where-)fore, with. Often used in composition with the same general
import, but only with verbs (etc.) expressing motion (literally or
figuratively).]
bc [a] peculiar [Strong: 4047 peripoiesis per-ee-poy'-ay-sis
from 4046; acquisition (the act or the thing); by extension,
preservation:--obtain(-ing), peculiar, purchased, possession, saving.
k. people [Strong: 2992 laos lah-os' apparently a primary
word; a people (in general; thus differing from 1218, which denotes one's own
populace):--people.]
4. “…that ye should shew forth the praises of him
who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:”
a. that [Strong: 3704 hopos hop'-oce from 3739 and 4459;
what(-ever) how, i.e. in the manner that (as adverb or conjunction of
coincidence, intentional or actual):--because, how, (so) that, to, when.]
b. [ye should] shew forth [Strong: 1804 exaggello ex-ang-el'-lo
from 1537 and the base of 32; to publish, i.e. celebrate:--shew forth.]
c. the [Strong: 3588 ho ho, including the feminine he
hay, and the neuter to to in all their inflections; the definite article; the
(sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):--the, this,
that, one, he, she, it, etc.]
d. praises [Strong: 703 arete ar-et'-ay from the same as
730; properly, manliness (valor), i.e. excellence (intrinsic or
attributed):--praise, virtue.] [Thayer: a word of very wide signification in
Greek writings; any excellence of a person (in body or mind) or of a thing, an
eminent endowment, property or quality. Used of the human mind and in an
ethical sense, it denotes: 1. a virtuous course of thought, feeling and action;
virtue, moral goodness (Wis. 4:1 Wis. 5:13; often in 4 Macc. and in Greek
writings): 2 Peter 1:5 (others take it here specifically, viz. moral vigor; cf.
next entry). 2. Any particular moral excellence, as modesty, purity; hence
(plural αἱ ἀρεταί, Wis. 8:7; often in 4 Macc. and in the Greek philosophers) τίς
ἀρετή, Philippians 4:8. Used of God, it denotes a. his power: 2 Peter 2:3.]
1). The only way to show forth the excellencies, the moral goodness,
the moral excellence of Christ Jesus is to be transformed into his image.
a). Romans 12:1, 2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of
God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service.
12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and
perfect, will of God.
b). 2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a
glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to
glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
c). 1 Kings 2:2, 3 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong
therefore, and shew thyself a man;
2:3 And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to
keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his
testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in
all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
2). This is only accomplished by the grace of God because in ourselves
we can do nothing.
a). 2 Peter 1:2-8 Grace
and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our
Lord,
1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that
pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called
us to glory and virtue:
1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:
that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the
corruption that is in the world through lust.
1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue;
and to virtue knowledge;
1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to
patience godliness;
1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness
charity.
1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye
shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus
Christ.
e. [of him] who has called [Strong: 2564 kaleo kal-eh'-o akin
to the base of 2753; to "call" (properly, aloud, but used in a
variety of applications, directly or otherwise):--bid, call (forth), (whose,
whose sur-)name (was (called)).]
f. you [Strong: 5209 humas hoo-mas' accusative case of
5210; you (as the objective of a verb or preposition):--ye, you (+ -ward), your
(+ own).]
g. out of [Strong: 1537 ek ek or ex ex a primary
preposition denoting origin (the point whence action or motion proceeds), from,
out (of place, time, or cause; literal or figurative; direct or
remote):--after, among, X are, at, betwixt(-yond), by (the means of),
exceedingly, (+ abundantly above), for(- th), from (among, forth, up), +
grudgingly, + heartily, X heavenly, X hereby, + very highly, in, ...ly,
(because, by reason) of, off (from), on, out among (from, of), over, since, X
thenceforth, through, X unto, X vehemently, with(-out). Often used in
composition, with the same general import; often of completion.]
h. darkness [Strong: 4655 skotos skot'-os from the base
of 4639; shadiness, i.e. obscurity (literally or figuratively):--darkness.]
i. into [Strong: 1519 eis ice a primary preposition; to
or into (indicating the point reached or entered), of place, time, or
(figuratively) purpose (result, etc.); also in adverbial
phrases:--(abundant-)ly, against, among, as, at, (back-)ward, before, by,
concerning, + continual, + far more exceeding, for (intent, purpose), fore, +
forth, in (among, at, unto, -so much that, -to), to the intent that, + of one
mind, + never, of, (up-)on, + perish, + set at one again, (so) that,
therefore(-unto), throughout, til, to (be, the end, -ward), (here-)until(-to),
...ward, (where-)fore, with. Often used in composition with the same general
import, but only with verbs (etc.) expressing motion (literally or
figuratively).]
j. his [Strong: 846 autos ow-tos' from the particle au
(perhaps akin to the base of 109 through the idea of a baffling wind)
(backward); the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative 1438)
of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other
persons:--her, it(-self), one, the other, (mine) own, said, (self-), the) same,
((him-, my-, thy- )self, (your-)selves, she, that, their(-s), them(-selves),
there(-at, - by, -in, -into, -of, -on, -with), they, (these) things, this
(man), those, together, very, which.]
k. marvelous [Strong: 2298 thaumastos thow-mas-tos' from
2296; wondered at, i.e. (by implication) wonderful:--marvel(-lous).]
l. light [Strong: 5457 phos foce from an obsolete phao
(to shine or make manifest, especially by rays; compare 5316, 5346);
luminousness (in the widest application, natural or artificial, abstract or
concrete, literal or figurative):--fire, light.]
