First Peter Chapter 1-14 Summary

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The book of first Peter is a General Epistle (Missional Letter). It was composed to all adherents to general. The creator is Peter who composed it around 60 A.D. The key identities are the Missionary Peter, Silas, and Mark. Its motivation was to urge enduring Christians and to call them to individual heavenliness; Peter’s focal concentration is abuse.

Chapters 1-2, Peter addresses the issue that devotees are to carry on with an existence of individual sacredness as God's kin, notwithstanding amid times of affliction and mistreatment. He shows that all Christians are to expect enduring; it is typical and Scriptural for Christians to endure mistreatment and even detainment and passing. Peter clarifies that our salvation in Christ is secure

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