Read 1 Peter 2:18 . Living “good lives” (2:12) requires not only submitting to civic rulers but also to those who are our masters at...

Read 1 Peter 2:17 . This section about submission to rulers (2:13-17) concludes with four specific commands. We are to live good lives...

Read 1 Peter 2:16 . Submission to human authority (2:13-15) sounds like a restriction but it’s an expression of our Christian freedom....

Read 1 Peter 2:15 . We often struggle in specific instances to know God’s will for our lives. But there are some general areas where we...

Read 1 Peter 2:13-14 . Although the world is not our home and “our citizenship is in heaven” (2:11; Ph.3:20), the Bible calls us to be...

Read 1 Peter 2:12 . As we’ve already seen, holiness is primarily positive, not negative. It must include the avoiding of evil but it’s...

Read 1 Peter 2:11 . So Christians are the new temple, the new priesthood, the new people of God (2:5,9) and this calls for a new way of...

Read 1 Peter 2:9-10 . Peter returns to the theme of the blessings of being God’s people (2:5). In contrast (But you) to those who reject...

Read 1 Peter 2:6-8 . Jesus is the chosen and precious foundation stone (2:4-5) and that’s now supported by three OT verses (Is.28:16;...

Read 1 Peter 2:4-5 . This next section makes extensive use of Old Testament imagery to show that Christian believers are the new people...