1 Peter 4

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 4:9-10

4:9-10 Be hospitable to one another and never grudge it. As each has received a gift from God, so let all use such gifts in the service of one another, like good stewards of the grace of God. Peter's mind is dominated in this section by the conviction that the end of all things is near. It is of the greatest interest and significance to note that he does not use that conviction to urge men to withdraw from the world and to enter on a kind of private campaign to save their own souls; he... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 4:11

4:11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as one uttering sayings sent from God. If anyone renders any service, let him do so as one whose service comes from the strength which God supplies, so that God may be glorified in all things through Jesus Christ to whom belong glory and power for ever and ever. Amen. Peter is thinking of the two great activities of the Christian Church, preaching and practical service. The word he uses for sayings is logia ( Greek #3048 ). That is a word with a... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 4:12-13

4:12-13 Beloved, do not regard the fiery ordeal through which you are passing and which has happened to you to test you, as something strange, as if some alien experience were happening to you, but rejoice in so far as you share the sufferings of Christ so that you may also rejoice with rapture when his glory shall be revealed. In the nature of things persecution must have been a much more daunting experience for Gentiles than it was for Jews. The average Gentile had little experience of... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 4:14-16

4:14-16 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed because the presence of the glory and the Spirit of God rest upon you. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer or a busybody. But if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him by this name bring glory to God. Here Peter says the greatest thing of all. If a man suffers for Christ, the presence of the glory rests upon him. This is a very strange phrase. We think it can... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 4:17-19

4:17-19 For the time has come for judgment to begin from the household of God. And, if it begins from us, what will be the end of those who disobey the good news which comes from God? And, if the righteous man is scarcely saved, where will the impious man and the sinner appear? So, then, let those who suffer in accordance with the will of God, entrust their souls to him who is a Creator on whom you can rely, and continue to do right. As Peter saw it, it was all the more necessary for the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 4:18

4:6 He was put to death in the flesh, but he was raised to life in the Spirit, in which also he went and preached to the spirits who are in prison, the spirits who were once upon a time disobedient in the time when the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being built.... For this is why the gospel was preached even to the dead, so that, although they have already been judged in the flesh like men, they might live in the spirit like God. We have already said that we... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 4:18

This doctrine of the descent into Hades, as we must now call it, is based on two phrases in our present passage. It says that Jesus went and preached to the spirits who are in prison ( 1 Peter 3:19 ); and it speaks of the gospel being preached to the dead ( 1 Peter 4:6 ). In regard to this doctrine there have always been differing attitudes amongst thinkers. (i) There are those who wish to eliminate it altogether. There is the attitude of elimination. Some wish to eliminate it... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 4:18

We have seen that the attempt at the elimination of this passage fails. (ii) The second attitude is limitation. This attitude--and it is that of some very great New Testament interpreters--believes that Peter is indeed saying that Jesus went to Hades and preached, but that he by no means preached to all the inhabitants of Hades. Different interpreters limit that preaching in different ways. (a) It is argued that Jesus preached in Hades only to the spirits of the men who were disobedient in... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 4:18

(iii) There is the attitude that what Peter is saying is that Jesus Christ, between his death and resurrection, went to the world of the dead and preached the gospel there. Peter says that Jesus Christ was put to death in the flesh but raised to life in the Spirit, and that it was in the Spirit that he so preached. The meaning is that Jesus lived in a human body and was under all the limitations of time and space in the days of his flesh; and died with that body broken and bleeding upon the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 4

INTRODUCTION TO 1 PETER 4 In this chapter the apostle goes on to exhort to an holy life and conversation, and to the several duties of religion, and to suffer cheerfully for the sake of Christ. From the consideration of Christ's sufferings, he exhorts the saints to arm themselves with the same mind, and cease from sin, and live no longer to the lusts of men, but to the will of God, 1 Peter 4:1 the reason, or argument engaging to it, is taken from the past time of life, in which they... read more

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 4:9-10

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 4:11

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 4:12-13

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 4:14-16

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 4:17-19

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 4:18

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 4:18

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 4:18

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Peter 4:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Peter 4

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