📖 The Book of 1 Peter
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Living as holy exiles — hope and holiness in a hostile world.
Who wrote 1 Peter?
Author
Peter
Written
c. AD 64
Genre
Epistle
Why 1 Peter was written
Written to scattered Christians under pressure, calling them to live holy, hope-filled lives as strangers and exiles in this world, following in the steps of the suffering Christ.
Outline of 1 Peter
- 11: The living hope; holy living in response to grace
- 22: The living stone and holy nation; submission in society
- 33: Husbands and wives; suffering for righteousness
- 44: Suffering and the judgment of God
- 55: Elders and the flock; standing against the devil
Key verses
1 Peter 1:3-41 Peter 2:91 Peter 2:241 Peter 5:10
How 1 Peter points to Christ
1 Peter 2:24 — 'He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.' Christ's suffering is both the basis for our salvation and the pattern for our suffering.
How 1 Peter begins
1Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
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