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

Acts 24:25

The hope

Hebrews 6:1

With

1 Peter 3:2

2 Timothy 2:25

Bible References

And be

And ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the heathen.

Therefore rest satisfied in your hearts, not to premeditate what apology to make:

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

Then Peter and the apostles answering said, We must obey God rather than men.

But Paul replied, I am indeed a Jew, a man of Tarsus, of Cilicia, a citizen of no contemptible city: and, I entreat thee, permit me to speak to the people.

MEN, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my apology which I now offer unto you.

Let your discourse be always gracious, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to reply to every man.

with meekness correcting those who are opposers, if at last God may give unto them repentance so as to submit to the conviction of the truth;

A reason

And as he discoursed of righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment which is ready to be revealed, Felix being greatly terrified, replied, Go, for the present, I will some time hence take another opportunity of calling for thee.

The hope

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto an animating hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

because of the hope laid up for you in the heavens, which ye have heard before in the word of truth, the gospel,

in hope of life eternal, which God, who cannot lie, hath promised before time had a being;

but Christ as a son over his own house: whose house are we, if we hold firmly the confidence and glorying of hope stedfast unto the end.

WHEREFORE, desisting from initiatory discourse respecting Christ, let us advance towards perfection; not again laying a foundation of repentance from dead works, and faith in God,

With

being eye-witnesses of your chaste behaviour with timidity.

with meekness correcting those who are opposers, if at last God may give unto them repentance so as to submit to the conviction of the truth;