1 Peter 1:4
Good News Translation
and so we look forward to possessing the rich blessings that God keeps for his people. He keeps them for you in heaven, where they cannot decay or spoil or fade away.

New Revised Standard Version
and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,

Contemporary English Version
God has something stored up for you in heaven, where it will never decay or be ruined or disappear.

New American Bible
to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you

Douay-Rheims Bible
Unto an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled and that cannot fade, reserved in heaven for you,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Unto an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled and that cannot fade, reserved in heaven for you,

an.

1 Peter 3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

Matthew 25:34 Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Acts 20:32 And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, who is able to build up and to give an inheritance among all the sanctified.

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in me.

Galatians 3:18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise. But God gave it to Abraham by promise.

Ephesians 1:11,14,18 In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will. . . .

Colossians 1:12 Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light:

Hebrews 9:15 And therefore he is the mediator of the new testament: that by means of his death for the redemption of those transgressions which were under the former testament, they that are called may receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

incorruptible.

1 Corinthians 9:25 And every one that striveth for the mastery refraineth himself from all things. And they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown: but we an incorruptible one.

1 Corinthians 15:52-54 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise again incorruptible. And we shall be changed. . . .

undefiled.

Revelation 21:27 There shall not enter into it any thing defiled or that worketh abomination or maketh a lie: but they that are written in the book of life of the Lamb.

fadeth.

1 Peter 5:4 And when the prince of pastors shall appear, you shall receive a never fading crown of glory.

Isaiah 40:7,8 The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass: . . .

Ezekiel 47:12 And by the torrent on the banks thereof on both sides shall grow all trees that bear fruit: their leaf shall not fall off, and their fruit shall not fail: every month shall they bring forth firstfruits, because the waters thereof shall issue out of the sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall be for food, and the leaves thereof for medicine.

James 1:11 For the sun rose with a burning heat and parched the grass: and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished. So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

reserved.

Psalm 31:19 O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrought for them that hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of men.

Colossians 1:5 For the hope that is laid up for you in heaven, which you have heard in the word of the truth of the gospel,

Colossians 3:3,4 For you are dead: and your life is hid with Christ in God. . . .

2 Timothy 4:8 As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming. Make haste to come to me quickly.

for you.

Context
A Living Hope
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy hath regenerated us unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead: 4Unto an inheritance, incorruptible, and undefiled and that cannot fade, reserved in heaven for you, 5Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.…
Cross References
Psalm 47:4
He hath chosen for us his inheritance, the beauty of Jacob which he hath loved.

Isaiah 66:22
For as the new heavens, and the new earth, which I will make to stand before me, saith the Lord: so shall your seed stand, and your name.

Mark 10:17
And when he was gone forth into the way, a certain man, running up and kneeling before him, asked him: Good Master, what shall I do that I may receive life everlasting?

Acts 20:32
And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, who is able to build up and to give an inheritance among all the sanctified.

Romans 8:17
And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God and joint heirs with Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him.

Colossians 3:24
Knowing that you shall receive of the Lord the reward of inheritance. Serve ye the Lord Christ.

2 Timothy 4:8
As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming. Make haste to come to me quickly.

Hebrews 10:34
For you both had compassion on them that were in bands and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance.

1 Peter 5:4
And when the prince of pastors shall appear, you shall receive a never fading crown of glory.

1 Peter 1:3
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