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Words are the currency of civilization. They have a powerful effect in daily life by challenging, confronting or comforting the hearer. Near the end of his life, Peter wrote this letter to first-century Christians, warning them of the danger they were in from those seeking to destroy the church of Jesus Christ with corrosive words. Today, the church is in danger of being marginalized by secular...

For Christian believers that is gloriously true; Christ is their substitute and because of him they are free for evermore. Peter longs that his readers will experience two great things: grace and peace. In New Testament Greek, grace is charis. It means a gracious favour or benefit bestowed, and at the same time it also means the gratitude (or grateful thanks) appropriate to the grace received. In the New Testament it refers to God’s sovereign kindness at work:
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