Study Desk

Through him you now trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and enduring word of God.

you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

and maintain good conduct among the non-Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.

For God wants you to silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing good.

Honor all people, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the king.

For this finds God's favor, if because of conscience toward God someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly.

For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God.

When he was maligned, he did not answer back; when he suffered, he threatened no retaliation, but committed himself to God who judges justly.

For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.

Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through water.

And this prefigured baptism, which now saves you—not the washing off of physical dirt but the pledge of a good conscience to God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

who went into heaven and is at the right hand of God with angels and authorities and powers subject to him.

in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of the varied grace of God.

Whoever speaks, let it be with God's words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory, who is the Spirit of God , rests on you.

But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear such a name.