5:31; 1 Pet 1:3–5). God in eternity past chose his people for salvation (1 Pet 1:1; 2:9), and in time he gave them new life (1 Pet 1:3, 23; 2 Pet 1:4) through their response of faith (1 Pet 1:9, 21). Peter enjoined believers to purify themselves (1 Pet 1:15–16; 2:1, 11; 2 Pet 3:11) through God’s enablement (2 Pet 1:3) and so to persevere in God’s grace (1 Pet 5:12). John taught that the Father sent his only Son to bring the world salvation (John 3:17; 1 John 2:2). Thus Jesus is “the Savior of the
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