1 Peter 3:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

And be

A reason

The hope

Hebrews 6:1

With

1 Peter 3:2

2 Timothy 2:25

General references

Proverbs 26:16

Bible References

And be

I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings and will not be ashamed.

Then Jeremiah spoke unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to King Nebuchadnezzar, We are not careful to answer thee in this matter.

Then Amos answered and said to Amaziah, I am not a prophet, neither am I a prophet's son, but I am a herdsman and a gatherer of sycamore fruit:

and ye shall even be brought before princes and kings for my sake, for testimony unto them and to the Gentiles.

Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate before what ye shall answer;

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them, Ye princes of the people and elders of Israel,

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We must persuade God rather than men.

But Paul said, I am certainly a Jew, a citizen of Tarsus, a city known in Cilicia; and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.

Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense which I make now unto you.

Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

that with meekness they might teach those that resist, if God peradventure will grant unto them that they might repent and know the truth,

A reason

Now, therefore, stand still that I may contend with you before the LORD of all the righteousnesses of the LORD which he did to you and to your fathers.

Then come, shall the LORD say, and we shall be even; if your sins were as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow; if they were red like crimson, they shall become as wool.

Explain your cause, saith the LORD; bring forth your foundations, saith the King of Jacob.

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled and answered, Go away for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.

The hope

Praised be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, the Christ, who according to his great mercy has begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus, the Christ, from the dead,

for the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which ye have already heard by the word of the truth of the gospel,

for the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the times of the ages

but Christ as a son over his own house, which house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the glorious hope firmly until the end.

Therefore, leaving now the word of the beginning of the establishment of the Christ, let us go on unto perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from works of death, and of faith in God,

With

considering your chaste conversation which is in fear.

that with meekness they might teach those that resist, if God peradventure will grant unto them that they might repent and know the truth,

General references

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can give him counsel.