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1 Peter 1

2 songs checked against 1 Peter 1. Each proof shows the passage, what the song does with it, and whether you can sing it. Read the whole chapter: Bible Gateway ↗ · Bible Hub ↗

1 Peter 1:3-5 · “Living Hope” · Phil Wickham

NOT A QUOTE “Living Hope” Phil Wickham 1 Peter 1:3-5 Sing it. It quotes nothing, and the phrase it borrows for its title carries the same meaning Peter gives it, hope anchored in the resurrection rather than in how the singer feels.

✓ Uses "living hope" in the sense 1 Peter 1:3 gives it, grounded in the resurrection rather than in the singer's feelings

⚠ No reference is given, so a listener may not know the title is a phrase from a specific verse

1 Peter 1:18-19 · “Thank You Jesus for the Blood” · Charity Gayle

NOT A QUOTE “Thank You Jesus for the Blood” Charity Gayle 1 Peter 1:18-19 Sing it. Nothing in it is quoting scripture. It thanks Christ for a ransom, which is 1 Peter's picture too. The verse adds what you were ransomed from: an inherited empty way of life.

✓ The blood in the song is a lamb's, and the writers have said the Passover was in mind. That is the same image 1 Peter 1:19 uses

⚠ Peter's verse works by saying what the ransom was not paid with, perishable things, silver or gold. The song has nothing that does that job, so the negation that drives the verse is not in the song

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