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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...

Do Good (3:13)* On the whole, Christians are not so likely to suffer. The people who suffer most are those who do wrong and suffer the penalties inflicted on evildoers. It is the slave who displeases his master by failing to do his work properly or by stealing his property who will get into trouble. But the Christian, simply because he is a Christian, lives a different kind of life. He is eager to do good. “Doing good” means following the Christian way of life as it has been developed earlier in