Study Desk

For in the same way formerly the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves by being subject to their own husbands,

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

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, in order that he could bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,

who were formerly disobedient, when the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, while an ark was being constructed, in which a few—that is, eight souls—were rescued through water.

And also, corresponding to this, baptism now saves you, not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, with angels and authorities and powers having been subjected to him.

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for the will of God.

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

If anyone speaks, let it be as the oracles of God; if anyone serves, let it be as by the strength that God provides, so that in all things God will be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.

If you are reviled on account of the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

But if someone suffers as a Christian, he must not be ashamed, but must glorify God with this name.

For it is the time for the judgment to begin out from the household of God. But if it begins out from us first, what will be the outcome for those who are disobedient to the gospel of God?

So then also those who suffer according to the will of God must entrust their souls to a faithful Creator in doing good.

shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not by compulsion but willingly, in accordance with God, and not greedily but eagerly,

In the same way, younger men, be subject to the elders, and all of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you at the right time,

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered for a short time, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.

Through Silvanus, the faithful brother (as I consider him), I have written to you briefly to encourage you and to attest that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it.

Simeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a faith equal in value to ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.

May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,