As sojourners and pilgrims (w paroikou kai parepidhmou). This combination from the LXX ( Genesis 33:4 ; Psalms 39:13 ). See 1?Peter 1:1 for parepi...
Overview - 1?Peter 4 1?He exhorts them to cease from sin by the example of Christ, and the consideration of the general end that now approaches; 12?an...
Preciousness of Christ To God Matthew 3:17 ; 1?Peter 2:4 To Saints Solomon 5:10 ; Philippians 3:8 ; 1?Peter 2:7 ON ACCOUNT OF HIS Goodness...
Overview - 1?Peter 3 1?He teaches the duty of wives and husbands to each other; 8?exhorting all men to unity and love; 14?and to suffer persecution. ...
I think it right (dikaion hgoumai). Peter considers this to be his solemn duty, right (dikaion). Cf. Philippians 3:1 ; Ephesians 6:1 . So long as (...
Who am a fellow-elder (o sunpresbutero). Earliest use of this compound in an inscription of B.C. 120 for fellow-elders (alderman) in a town, here onl...
Overview - 2?Peter 1 1?Confirming them in hope of the increase of God's graces, 5?he exhorts them, by faith, and good works, to make their calling su...
Overview - 1?Peter 4 1?He exhorts them to cease from sin by the example of Christ, and the consideration of the general end that now approaches; 12?an...
Adorned themselves (ekosmoun eauta). Imperfect active of customary action, used to adorn themselves. Kosmew is old verb from kosmo in the sense in ve...
Overview - 1?Peter 5 1?He exhorts the elders to feed their flocks; 5?the younger to obey; 8?and all to be sober, watchful, and constant in the faith...
Overview - 2?Peter 2 1?He foretells them of false teachers, shewing the impiety and punishment both of them and their followers; 7?from which the god...
The putting off of my tabernacle (h apoqesi tou skhnnwmato mou). For apoqesi see on 1Pe 3:21 and for skhnwma verse 2?Timothy 13 . For the metaphor s...
1 Peter 3:17 For it is better, if the will of God be so For all things are ordered by the will of God, even all the sufferings and afflictions of the ...
Overview - 1?Peter 3 1?He teaches the duty of wives and husbands to each other; 8?exhorting all men to unity and love; 14?and to suffer persecution. ...
The Lord knoweth how (oiden kurio). The actual apodosis of the long protasis begun in verse 2?Thessalonians 4 . God can deliver his servants as show...
Humble yourselves therefore (tapeinwqhte oun). First aorist passive imperative of tapeinow, old verb, for which see Matthew 18:4 . Peter is here in ...
Overview - Daniel 4 1?Nebuchadnezzar confesses God's kingdom, 4?makes relation of his dreams, which the magicians could not interpret. 8?Daniel hear...
It were better (kreitton hn). Apodosis of a condition of second class without an, as is usual with clauses of possibility, propriety, obligation ( Ma...
Forget not this one thing (en touto mh lanqanetw uma). Rather, let not this one thing escape you. For lanqanetw (present active imperative of lanqanw...
Simon he surnamed Peter (epeqhken onoma twi Simwni Petron). The Greek idiom seems awkward, but it is not. Peter is in apposition with name or onoma (...