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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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Albert Barnes
On 1 Peter 1:22
18th Century
Theologian
Seeing you have purified your souls. (The Greek is, "Having purified your souls.") The apostles were never afraid of referring to human ag…
AT Robertson
On 1 Peter 1:22
Seeing ye have purified (ηγνικοτες). Perfect active participle of αγνιζω, old verb from αγνος (pure), here with ψυχας (souls), wit…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Peter 1:22
19th Century
Bishop
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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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Peter 1:22–23
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Peter 1:22
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…
John Calvin
On 1 Peter 1:22
16th Century
Theologian
Seeing ye have purified your souls, or, Purifying your souls. Erasmus renders the words poorly, “Who have purified,” and so o…
John Gill
On 1 Peter 1:22
17th Century
Pastor
Seeing you have purified your souls
The apostle passes to another exhortation, namely, to brotherly love; the ground…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Peter 1:17–25
17th Century
Minister
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…