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 governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the heathens.

Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to premeditate what to answer. For I will give you a mouth and wisdom,

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

Then Peter and the other apostles answering said, We ought to obey God rather than man.

But Paul said, I am a man who am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and I beseech thee, suffer me to speak to the people.

Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye now my defence unto you.

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

apt to teach, patient of evil, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if haply God may give them repentance, to the acknowledging of the truth;

A reason

And as he reasoned concerning justice, temperance, and the judgment to come, Felix being terrified, answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call 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 to a living hope, by the resurrection of Christ from the dead,

your love to all the saints) For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven,

In hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began;

But Christ as a Son over his own house, whose house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the glorying of hope, firm to the end.

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works,

With

Beholding your chaste conversation joined with fear:

apt to teach, patient of evil, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if haply God may give them repentance, to the acknowledging of the truth;