1 Peter 4:1-6
ADMONITIONS IN VIEW OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. Ceasing from sin:... [ Continue Reading ]
ADMONITIONS IN VIEW OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. Ceasing from sin:... [ Continue Reading ]
FORASMUCH, THEN, AS CHRIST HATH SUFFERED FOR US IN THE FLESH, ARM YOURSELVES LIKEWISE WITH THE SAME MIND; FOR HE THAT HATH SUFFERED IN THE FLESH HATH CEASED FROM SIN,... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT HE NO LONGER SHOULD LIVE THE REST OF HIS TIME IN THE FLESH TO THE LUSTS OF MEN, BUT TO THE WILL OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE TIME PAST OF OUR LIFE MAY SUFFICE US TO HAVE WROUGHT THE WILL OF THE GENTILES, WHEN WE WALKED IN LASCIVIOUSNESS, LUSTS, EXCESS OF WINE, REVELINGS, BANQUETINGS, AND ABOMINABLE IDOLATRIES;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREIN THEY THINK IT STRANGE THAT YE RUN NOT WITH THEM TO THE SAME EXCESS OF RIOT, SPEAKING EVIL OF YOU;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO SHALL GIVE ACCOUNT TO HIM THAT IS READY TO JUDGE THE QUICK AND THE DEAD.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS CAUSE WAS THE GOSPEL PREACHED ALSO TO THEM THAT ARE DEAD, THAT THEY MIGHT BE JUDGED ACCORDING TO MEN IN THE FLESH, BUT LIVE ACCORDING TO GOD IN THE SPIRIT. The apostle here resumes the thought connection which he had touched upon in chap. 3:18, that of the sufferings of Christ and its lesso... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE END OF ALL THINGS IS AT HAND; BE YE, THEREFORE, SOBER, AND WATCH UNTO PRAYER.... [ Continue Reading ]
Christian virtues and works:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ABOVE ALL THINGS HAVE FERVENT CHARITY AMONG YOURSELVES; FOR CHARITY SHALL COVER THE MULTITUDE OF SINS.... [ Continue Reading ]
USE HOSPITALITY ONE TO ANOTHER WITHOUT GRUDGING.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS EVERY MAN HATH RECEIVED THE GIFT, EVEN SO MINISTER THE SAME ONE TO ANOTHER, AS GOOD STEWARDS OF THE MANIFOLD GRACE OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF ANY MAN SPEAK, LET HIM SPEAK AS THE ORACLES OF GOD; IF ANY MAN MINISTER, LET HIM DO IT AS OF THE ABILITY WHICH GOD GIVETH; THAT GOD IN ALL THINGS MAY BE GLORIFIED THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, TO WHOM BE PRAISE AND DOMINION FOREVER AND EVER. AMEN. The apostle here guards against the danger of a false sec... [ Continue Reading ]
BELOVED, THINK IT NOT STRANGE CONCERNING THE FIERY TRIAL WHICH IS TO TRY YOU AS THOUGH SOME STRANGE THING HAPPENED UNTO YOU;... [ Continue Reading ]
The Christians partakers of Christ's sufferings:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT REJOICE, INASMUCH AS YE ARE PARTAKERS OF CHRIST'S SUFFERINGS, THAT, WHEN HIS GLORY SHALL BE REVEALED, YE MAY BE GLAD ALSO WITH EXCEEDING JOY.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF YE BE REPROACHED FOR THE NAME OF CHRIST, HAPPY ARE YE; FOR THE SPIRIT OF GLORY AND OF GOD RESTETH UPON YOU; ON THEIR PART HE IS EVIL SPOKEN OF, BUT ON YOUR PART HE IS GLORIFIED. This section marks the beginning of the third and last part of the letter, in which the apostle once more returns to th... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT LET NONE OF YOU SUFFER AS A MURDERER, OR AS A THIEF, OR AS AN EVIL-DOER, OR AS A BUSYBODY IN OTHER MEN'S MATTERS.... [ Continue Reading ]
Suffering as Christians:... [ Continue Reading ]
YET IF ANY MAN SUFFER AS A CHRISTIAN, LET HIM NOT BE ASHAMED; BUT LET HIM GLORIFY GOD ON THIS BEHALF.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE TIME IS COME THAT JUDGMENT MUST BEGIN AT THE HOUSE OF GOD; AND IF IT FIRST BEGIN AT US, WHAT SHALL THE END BE OF THEM THAT OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL OF GOD?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IF THE RIGHTEOUS SCARCELY BE SAVED, WHERE SHALL THE UNGODLY AND SINNER APPEAR?... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, LET THEM THAT SUFFER ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD COMMIT THE KEEPING OF THEIR SOULS TO HIM IN WELL-DOING, AS UNTO A FAITHFUL CREATOR. Having shown what advantages the Christians enjoy in the very midst of suffering, the apostle now teaches, in a paragraph full of warning, that only genuin... [ Continue Reading ]