1 Peter 2:25 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

You were like lost sheep. Now you have come back to the shepherd and bishop of your lives. (GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

ASV:

For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

BBE:

Because, like sheep, you had gone out of the way; but now you have come back to him who keeps watch over your souls.

DBY:

For ye were going astray as sheep, but have now returned to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

ERV:

For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

WEY:

For you were straying like lost sheep, but now you have come back to the Shepherd and Protector of your souls.

WBS:

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned to the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

WEB:

For you were going astray like sheep; but now have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

YLT:

for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

1 Peter 2:25 Cross References

XREF:

Isaiah 53:6 All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.

John 10:11 "I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

1 Peter 5:4 And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

2:25 Ye were as sheep going astray. Led astray by sin.
Are now returned. By coming to Christ.
Unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. The good Shepherd who died for the sheep; the Bishop who watcheth over and careth for them.

WES:

2:25 The bishop - The kind observer, inspector, or overseer of your souls.

MHC:

2:18-25 Servants in those days generally were slaves, and had heathen masters, who often used them cruelly; yet the apostle directs them to be subject to the masters placed over them by Providence, with a fear to dishonour or offend God. And not only to those pleased with reasonable service, but to the severe, and those angry without cause. The sinful misconduct of one relation, does not justify sinful behaviour in the other; the servant is bound to do his duty, though the master may be sinfully froward and perverse. But masters should be meek and gentle to their servants and inferiors. What glory or distinction could it be, for professed Christians to be patient when corrected for their faults? But if when they behaved well they were ill treated by proud and passionate heathen masters, yet bore it without peevish complaints, or purposes of revenge, and persevered in their duty, this would be acceptable to God as a distinguishing effect of his grace, and would be rewarded by him. Christ's death was designed not only for an example of patience under sufferings, but he bore our sins; he bore the punishment of them, and thereby satisfied Divine justice. Hereby he takes them away from us. The fruits of Christ's sufferings are the death of sin, and a new holy life of righteousness; for both which we have an example, and powerful motives, and ability to perform also, from the death and resurrection of Christ. And our justification; Christ was bruised and crucified as a sacrifice for our sins, and by his stripes the diseases of our souls are cured. Here is man's sin; he goes astray; it is his own act. His misery; he goes astray from the pasture, from the Shepherd, and from the flock, and so exposes himself to dangers without number. Here is the recovery by conversion; they are now returned as the effect of Divine grace. This return is, from all their errors and wanderings, to Christ. Sinners, before their conversion, are always going astray; their life is a continued error.

CONC:

Astray Bishop Continually Guardian Keeps Lost Overseer Protector Returned Sheep Shepherd Souls Straying Watch

Astray Bishop Continually Guardian Keeps Lost Overseer Protector Sheep Shepherd Souls Straying Turned Watch Way

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