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Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:
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A Divine & Human Partnership
Commentators explain that purifying your soul is a cooperative effort. You actively participate by "obeying the truth" of the gospel. However, this obedience and its purifying effect are only made possible "through the Spirit." As Albert Barnes notes, true piety is the result of cultivation, prompted and empowered by God's Spirit.
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1 Peter
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Seeing you have purified your souls. (The Greek is, "Having purified your souls.") The apostles were never afraid of referring to human ag…
Seeing ye have purified (ηγνικοτες). Perfect active participle of αγνιζω, old verb from αγνος (pure), here with ψυχας (souls), wit…
19th Century
Anglican
Purified your souls in obeying.—Bengel well points us to 2 Peter 1:5–7, where, similarly, St. Peter delights to exhibi…
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Baptist
Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another wi…
In the third subdivision of this section on the Christian way of life, Peter adds to the command to be holy and to reverence God, the command to “l…
16th Century
Protestant
Seeing ye have purified your souls, or, Purifying your souls. Erasmus renders the words poorly, “Who have purified,” and so o…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Seeing you have purified your souls The apostle passes to another exhortation, namely, to brotherly love; the ground…
Holy confidence in God as a Father and awe-filled fear of Him as a Judge harmonize; and to regard God always as a Judge endears Him to us as a Fath…
