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1 Peter 2:25

1 Peter 2:25
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

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Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

For ye were as sheep going astray - Here also is an allusion to Isa 53:6, “All we like sheep have gone astray.” See the notes at that verse. The figure is plain. We were like a flock without a…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

For ye were as sheep going astray - Formerly ye were not in a better moral condition than your oppressors; ye were like stray sheep, in the wilderness of ignorance and sin, till Christ, the true and…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 Peter 2:13-25

The general rule of a Christian conversation is this, it must be honest, which it cannot be if there be not a conscientious discharge of all relative duties. The apostle here particularly treats of…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

For ye were as sheep going astray The sequence of thought is suggested by the "all we like sheep have gone astray" of Isa 53:6, but the imagery could scarcely fail to recall to the mind of the Apostle…