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

And I speak of Thy testimonies before kings, And I am not ashamed.

And Jeremiah speaketh unto all the heads, and unto all the people, saying, 'Jehovah sent me to prophesy concerning this house, and concerning this city, all the words that ye have heard;

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego have answered, yea, they are saying to the king Nebuchadnezzar, 'We have no need concerning this matter to answer thee.

And Amos answereth and saith unto Amaziah, 'I am no prophet, nor a prophet's son am I, but a herdsman I am, and a cultivator of sycamores,

and before governors and kings ye shall be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

'Settle, then, to your hearts, not to meditate beforehand to reply,

Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: 'Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, 'To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

And Paul said, 'I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, of Tarsus of Cilicia, of no mean city a citizen; and I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.'

Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence now unto you;' --

your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,

A reason

and, now, station yourselves, and I judge you before Jehovah, with all the righteous acts of Jehovah, which He did with you, and with your fathers.

Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!

Bring near your cause, saith Jehovah, Bring nigh your mighty ones, saith the king of Jacob.

and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, 'For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;'

The hope

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

because of the hope that is laid up for you in the heavens, which ye heard of before in the word of the truth of the good news,

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

and Christ, as a Son over his house, whose house are we, if the boldness and the rejoicing of the hope unto the end we hold fast.

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,

With

having beheld your pure behaviour in fear,

in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,

General references

Wiser is the slothful in his own eyes, Than seven men returning a reason.