Study Desk

If you are insulted for the name of Messiah, blessed are you; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

But if one of you suffers for being a Messianic, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

For the time [has come] for judgment to begin at the house of God. If it begins first at us, what will happen to those who don't obey the Good News of God?

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

But may the God of all grace (who called you to his eternal glory by Messiah Yeshua), after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Through Sila, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

Shim`on Kefa, a servant and apostle of Yeshua the Messiah, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Yeshua the Messiah:

Grace to you and shalom be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Yeshua our Lord,

For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Ruach HaKodesh.

For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved to judgment;

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an eretz formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;

looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire will be dissolved, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.