1 Peter 3:17-19

The Voice

Peter urges us always to be ready to give a reason for the hope that lives within us. But it is important that it be done not with arrogance and contempt, but with gentle ness and love—the same virtues that should guide our responses to any hostile challenge. This is one way we can glorify Jesus as King over all our lives—by exalting Him with both our emotions and our intellect.

¹⁷For if it is the will of God that you suffer, then it is better to suffer for doing what is right than for doing what is wrong. ¹⁸The Anointed One suffered for sins once for all time—the righteous suffering for the unrighteous—so that He might bring us to God. Though He died in the flesh, He was made alive again through the Spirit. ¹⁹And in the Spirit, He went and preached to those spirits held captive.

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