The Letters · New Testament
1 Peter
1 Peter is book 60 of 66 and belongs to the Letters in the New Testament. It has 5 chapters, each with source-checked General, Historical and Literary context. 7 people are indexed in its passages.
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Chapters
- 1 Peter 1: 1 Peter 1: an inheritance kept in heaven and a call to be holy
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, writes to strangers scattered through five named regions, calling them elect according to the foreknowledge of God… - 1 Peter 2: 1 Peter 2: living stones, a chosen people, and suffering under wrong
Malice, guile, hypocrisies, envies and evil speakings are to be laid aside, and the readers are to want the sincere milk of the word like newborn… - 1 Peter 3: Answering hope with gentleness
The household instructions call wives to submit to their own husbands and husbands to honour their wives as fellow heirs of the grace of life. The… - 1 Peter 4: 1 Peter 4: the end at hand, and suffering as a Christian
Since Christ suffered in the flesh, the readers are to arm themselves with the same mind, because whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from… - 1 Peter 5: 1 Peter 5: a charge to elders, humility, and the closing greetings
The writer addresses the elders among the readers and describes himself as an elder too, a witness of the sufferings of Christ and a partaker of the…
