304 | Are you struggling to live out your Christian faith? 1 Peter 3:15 offers encouragement on allowing Christ to rule your life.

Do you find it challenging to make decisions that honor God in a world that often pulls you in the opposite direction?

1 Peter 3:15 encourages us that we see while our loyalty to Christ does set us apart; it also fills us with an unshakable hope.

1 Peter 3:15 (NIV)
But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,

 

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Brian Simmons, trans., The Passion Translation (BroadStreet Publishing, 2017), 1 Pe.

Otto Procksch and Karl Georg Kuhn, ed. Gerhard Kittel, Geoffrey W. Bromiley, and Gerhard Friedrich, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1964–), 111.

Charles Bigg, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude, International Critical Commentary (Edinburgh: T&T Clark International, 1901), 158.

The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), Is 8:13.

Thomas R. Schreiner, 1, 2 Peter, Jude, vol. 37, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2003), 173.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, and David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, vol. 2 (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1997), 508.

Douglas Mangum, ed., Lexham Context Commentary: New Testament, Lexham Context Commentary (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2020), 1 Pe 3:13–17.

David H. Wheaton, “1 Peter,” in New Bible Commentary: 21st Century Edition, ed. D. A. Carson et al., 4th ed. (Leicester, England; Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 1994), 1379.

 

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