In anticipation of the feast we offer you some excerpts from the epistles of Saint Apostles Peter and Paul. Practical suggestions said with love and care for our salvation turn these words into the source of favoring and consoling for all believers.
Saint Peter
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Holy Apostle Peter
“As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation.” (1Pet 1:14,15)
“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 with a pure heart fervently”
(1Pet 1:22)
“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.” (1Pet 2:5)
“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 marvelous light.” (1Pet 2:9)
“Honour all men. Love the
brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.” (1Pet 2:17)
"For this is thankworthy, if a man for
conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully." (1Pet 2:19)
"Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection
to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the
word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste
conversation coupled with fear." (1Pet 3:1,2)
"Whose adorning let it not be that
outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on
of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not
corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the
sight of God of great price." (1Pet 3:3,4)
"Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour
unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the
grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered." (1Pet 3:7)
"Finally, be ye all of one mind,
having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing;
knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing." (1Pet 3:8,9)
"Use hospitality one to another without grudging." (1Pet 4:9)
"As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God." (1Pet 4:10)
"But sanctify the Lord God
in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you
a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear." (1Pet 3:15)
"The elders which are among you I
exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and
also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:Feed the flock of God which
is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly;
not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind; Neither as being lords over God's
heritage, but being ensamples to the flock." (1Pet 5:1-3)
"God resisteth the proud, and giveth
grace to the humble." (1Pet 5:5)
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Holy Apostle Peter |
"Add to your faith virtue; and to
virtue knowledge;And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and
to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly
kindness charity." (2Pet 1:5-7)
St.Paul
"Therefore thou art inexcusable, O
man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou
condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things." (Romans 2:1)
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Holy Apostle Paul |
"But God commendeth his love toward
us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)
"But he that is joined unto the Lord
is one spirit." (1 Cor 6:17)
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Holy Apostle Paul |
"But I would have you know, that the
head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head
of Christ is God." (1Cor 11:3)
"Though I speak with the tongues of
men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a
tinkling cymbal.And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all
mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could
remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all
my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not
charity, it profiteth me nothing." (1Cor 13:1-3)
"Charity suffereth long, and is kind;
charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not
behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh
no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all
things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity
never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there
be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away." (1Cor 13:4-8)
"And now abideth faith, hope,
charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." (1Cor 13:13)
"Watch ye, stand fast in the faith,
quit you like men, be strong. Let all your things be done with charity." (1Cor
16:13,14)
"For we know that if our earthly
house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house
not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." (2Cor 5:1)
"Every man according as he purposeth
in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth
a cheerful giver. (2Cor 9:7)
But that no man is justified by the
law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith." (Gal
3:11)
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance:
against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the
flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk
in the Spirit." (Gal 5:22-25)
"Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ." (Gal 6:2)
"And let us not
be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." (Gal 6:9)
"For this cause shall a man leave his
father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one
flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless
let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the
wife see that she reverence her husband." (Eph 5:31-33)
"For we are his workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should
walk in them." (Eph 2:10)
"But let us, who are of the day, be
sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the
hope of salvation." (1Thes 5:8)
"Even so must their wives be grave,
not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. Let the deacons be the husbands
of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well." (1Tim 3:11,12)
"And let us consider one another to
provoke unto love and to good works." (Hebrews 10:24)
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