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• 1 Peter 2Bible

  First Peter 2 calls believers a spiritual house built of living stones and a royal priesthood, and exhorts them to follow Christ's example by doing good in the face of worldly authority and suffering.

• 1 Peter 1Bible

  1 Peter 1 is the opening chapter of the epistle. After greeting the believers scattered as strangers, it speaks of the living hope obtained through the resurrection and of joy amid trials. It then exhorts readers to live holy lives and to love one another as people redeemed by the blood of Christ.

• 2 Peter 1Bible

  The first chapter of 2 Peter. After the greeting, it urges believers to add virtue, knowledge, and other qualities to their faith. It also grounds the apostle's testimony in what he saw on the mount of the Transfiguration and addresses the authority of prophecy spoken by men moved by the Holy Spirit.

• 1 Peter 5Bible

  The final chapter of 1 Peter exhorts the elders to tend the flock and the younger members to be humble. The letter closes with a charge to resist the devil, a doxology, and final greetings that mention Silvanus and Mark.

• 1 Peter 4:10–11Bible Verses

  1 Peter 4:10–11 urges believers to use the gift each has received to serve one another as stewards of God's grace. It is frequently cited in teaching on service, church offices, and stewardship.

• 1 Peter 5:7Bible Verses

  1 Peter 5:7 urges suffering believers to cast all their cares on God because God cares for them. It is widely quoted as a word of comfort and an encouragement to prayer, and commentators note that it should be read together with the call to humility in the preceding verse.

• 2 Peter 1:5–10Bible Verses

  A passage that urges believers to add to their faith, in turn, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love, and in this way to make their calling and election sure. It is frequently cited in discussions of sanctification and the assurance of salvation, and denominations differ in emphasis on how election relates to human effort.

• 2 Peter 1:20–21Bible Verses

  A passage stating that the prophecy of Scripture did not originate in the will of man but was spoken from God by people carried along by the Holy Spirit. It is frequently cited as a basis for the doctrine of biblical inspiration and in discussions of what "private interpretation" means.

• 2 Peter 2:20–22Bible Verses

  A passage that warns, with reference to false teachers and those they have led astray, that anyone who becomes entangled again in the pollutions of the world after coming to know Christ ends up worse off than at the beginning. It is frequently cited in debates over whether a true believer can fall away from salvation.

• 1 Peter 4:6Bible Verses

  First Peter 4:6 states that the gospel was preached also to the dead so that, though judged in the flesh, they might live according to God in the spirit. Interpretations of the verse differ because it is bound up with questions about Christ's descent into hell and the possibility of salvation after death.

• 2 Peter 2:4–5Bible Verses

  A passage that cites the angels who sinned and the flood of Noah as examples showing that judgment will surely come upon false teachers. It is frequently discussed in connection with the fall of the angels, the Greek term Tartarus (rendered "hell"), and the description of Noah as a preacher of righteousness.

• 2 Peter 3:10–13Bible Verses

  A passage declaring that the day of the Lord will come as a thief and that the heavens and the earth will be dissolved by fire, while believers look for "new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." On this basis it urges holy living. Interpreters differ over whether the world will be annihilated or renewed, and over a textual variant in verse 10.

• 1 Peter 1:23Bible Verses

  A verse stating that the believer's new birth has come about through incorruptible seed, that is, the living and abiding word of God. It is frequently cited in discussions of the relationship between regeneration (the new birth) and the word.

• 1 Peter 3:21Bible Verses

  A verse that compares the waters of Noah's flood to baptism, calling baptism "the like figure" that "doth also now save us." Because denominations understand the role of baptism in salvation differently, the verse is frequently cited in discussions of the doctrine of baptism.

• 1 Peter 3:18Bible Verses

  A verse stating that Christ, the just, died once for the unjust in order to bring people to God. It is frequently cited in support of the doctrine of substitutionary atonement. Discussion centers on the meaning of "quickened by the Spirit" and on the verse's relationship to the following passage about the "spirits in prison."

• 1 Peter 2:24Bible Verses

  A verse stating that Christ bore our sins in his own body on the cross so that believers might turn from sin and live righteously. Drawing on Isaiah 53, it is widely cited in discussions of the atonement, the Christian life, and divine healing.

• 1 Peter 2:12Bible Verses

  First Peter 2:12 urges Christians living amid persecution and slander to maintain good conduct so that unbelievers may glorify God. It is frequently cited to support the view that the Christian life is itself a form of witness.

• 1 Peter 2:23Bible Verses

  First Peter 2:23 states that Christ, though reviled and made to suffer, did not retaliate but committed his cause to God, who judges righteously. The verse is frequently cited as a model of refusing to retaliate in the face of unjust suffering.

• 1 Peter 2:25Bible Verses

  In this verse the apostle Peter tells suffering believers that they, once like sheep going astray, have now returned to Christ, "the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls." The verse concludes a passage that draws on Isaiah 53 and is frequently cited in discussions of conversion, shepherd imagery, and the office of bishop.

• 2 Peter 1:19Bible Verses

  Second Peter 1:19 likens the word of prophecy to a light shining in a dark place and urges readers to take heed to that word until the day of Christ's return. The verse is frequently cited and discussed in connection with the relationship between the authority of Scripture and personal experience, and with the meaning of the "day star."