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1 Peter 3:8–16 (NASB95)

⁸To sum up, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit;

⁹not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.

¹⁰For,

“The one who desires life, to love and see good days, Must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit. ¹¹“He must turn away from evil and do good; He must seek

peace and pursue it. ¹²“For the eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous, And His ears

attend to their prayer, But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

¹³Who is there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good?

¹⁴But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed.

And do not fear their intimidation, and do not be troubled,

¹⁵but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;

¹⁶and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.

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Group Discussions

Share the inductive questions you came up with in your prep of 1 Peter 3:8-16.

Share some of the observations you made in your study of 1 Peter 3:8-16.

What is the context of these Old Testament quotes? Why are they significant?

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Review: Christians in a Fallen World

Living in a Hostile Gentile World

Resident Aliens (1:1; 2:12; 5:13)
Various fiery trials / suffering leading to distress (1:6; 2:19-20; 3:9-17; 4:12-16,19; 5:1,7,9-10)
Accusations / Slander (2:12,23; 3:9,16; 4:4,15)
Ignorance, Folly, Disobedience, Darkness (1:14; 2:9,15; 3:1; 4:4)
Unreasonable Superiors (2:18; 5:13)
Satanic attack (5:8)

Living as Heaven’s Heirs While Still in Sin-Tainted Flesh

Realness of the former lusts (1:13; 2:11)
Sinful patterns that need to be actively put aside (2:1; 4:1-3,7)
Tendency to stray (2:25; 5:3)
Desire for Retaliation (3:9; 4:15; 5:2)

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Review: Kept entrusting Himself…

1 Peter 2:13-17 Submit to rulers, authorities

1 Peter 2:18-20 Servants submit to masters

1 Peter 2:21-25 Christ’s examples

1 Peter 3:1-6 Wives submit to husbands

1 Peter 3:7 Husbands, live with co-heirs in an understanding way

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Review: Kept entrusting Himself…

1 Peter 2:13-17 Submit to rulers, authorities

1 Peter 2:18-20 Servants submit to masters

1 Peter 2:21-25 Christ’s examples

1 Peter 3:1-6 Wives submit to husbands

1 Peter 3:7 Husbands, live with co-heirs in an understanding way

1 Peter 2:23 (NASB95)

²³and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously;

Paradidou: “hand over, deliver, commit” for safe-keeping

The main verbs 🡪 imperfect tense (ongoing action): The spirit of nonretaliation was characteristic of Jesus’ entire life.

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Blue Bold: sub-sections

[First column]: sub-sections

[Second column]: The Christian character / The Christian Response

Red Bold: the future hope / reward

Underlined: The active, righteous response of those who have tasted and seen that the Lord is good

[Third column] subordinate ideas

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Psalm 34

Psalm 34:7–19 (NASB95)

⁷The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, And rescues them.

⁸O taste and see that the Lord is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!

⁹O fear the Lord, you His saints; For to those who fear Him there is no want.

¹⁰The young lions do lack and suffer hunger; But they who seek the Lord shall not be in want of any good thing.

¹¹Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

¹²Who is the man who desires life And loves length of days that he may see good?

¹³Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit.

¹⁴Depart from evil and do good; Seek peace and pursue it.

¹⁵The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous And His ears are open to their cry.

¹⁶The face of the Lord is against evildoers, To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

¹⁷The righteous cry, and the Lord hears And delivers them out of all their troubles.

¹⁸The Lord is near to the brokenhearted And saves those who are crushed in spirit.

¹⁹Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.

²⁰He keeps all his bones, Not one of them is broken.

Context

Written by David: when he feigned madness before Abimelech Achish the king of Gath (1 Samuel 21:11-15)

Acrostic Poem in the Hebrew alphabet

David is “reviled” and pursued by sinful kings (1 Samuel 21-22)

God delivers and gives miraculous victory to His anointed.

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Isaiah 8

Isaiah 8:10–13 (NASB95)

¹⁰“Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; State a proposal, but it will not stand, For God is with us.”

¹¹For thus the Lord spoke to me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

¹²“You are not to say, ‘It is a conspiracy!’ In regard to all that this people call a conspiracy, And you are not to fear what they fear or be in dread of it.

¹³“It is the Lord of hosts whom you should regard (sanctify) as holy. And He shall be your fear, And He shall be your dread.

Context

There is Civil War between Israel and Judah, and a common enemy, Assyria is rising in power.

King of Israel and King of Syria want to ally with Ahaz, King of Judah, to fight against the Assyrian invasion, but Ahaz refuses the alliance.

Ahaz considers allying the nation with the Assyrians, but Isaiah the prophet warns the king against this ungodly alliance.

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