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1 Peter was written by the Apostle Peter to encourage believers for whom the storm clouds of persecution were gathering, just because they were Christians. To encourage them he first reminds them that suffering is temporary, and that faithful living in times of suffering will produce eternal benefits. He develops this theme to show that such a lifestyle, lived out in difficult and dangerous...

The reason could be that we have given way to sinful desires. To the believer, they are like caged yet wild animals. To avoid even the possibility of danger they must not be give the merest ‘sniff’ of freedom. We need God’s strength and the support of his people to do this. The contrast that Peter paints here is between satisfying the sinful desires of the ‘flesh’ which is part of the old life, and the well-being of the ‘soul’ which is made for eternity. But we have already noticed that Christians
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