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As a young church in a hostile environment, Peter's first readers found in his letter encouragement, not just for facing suffering, but for living responsibly in the world as faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. Christians today will also find in Peter's letter a wealth of practical counsel on how to conduct themselves in family and social life, as well as in relation to a society that makes it...

Praise to God for the Hope of Salvation (1:3–5)* Peter starts with an expression of praise that is exactly the same as the wording used in 2 Corinthians 1:3 and Ephesians 1:3. This shows that this form of words had become traditional in the church, probably widely used in prayer and praise in church meetings. Two kinds of attitudes to this form of prayer coexist in the church today. Some people like to use existing, set forms of words. That they have been recited for centuries or authorized in a
1 Peter 1:3–5
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