Study Desk

Not many should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we will receive a greater judgment.

You desire and do not have; you murder and are filled with envy, and are not able to obtain; you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, in order that you may spend it on your pleasures.

You also be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near.

for it is written, "You will be holy, because I am holy."

because you know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your ancestors not with perishable things like silver or gold,

because you have been born again, not from perishable seed but imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

and "A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense," who stumble because they disobey the word to which also they were consigned.

For this finds favor, if because of consciousness of God someone endures sorrows while suffering unjustly.

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps,

not repaying evil for evil or insult for insult, but on the other hand blessing others, because for this reason you were called, so that you could inherit a blessing.

Therefore, because Christ suffered in the flesh, you also equip yourselves with the same way of thinking, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

Because for this reason also the gospel was preached to those who are dead, so that they were judged by human standards in the flesh, but they may live in the spirit by God's standards.

Above all, keep your love for one another constant, because love covers a large number of sins.

If you are reviled on account of the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

In the same way, younger men, be subject to the elders, and all of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

casting all your cares on him, because he cares for you.

Resist him, steadfast in your faith, because you know the same kinds of sufferings are being accomplished by your community of believers in the world.

because his divine power has bestowed on us all things that are necessary for life and godliness, through the knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence of character,

through which things he has bestowed on us his precious and very great promises, so that through these you may become sharers of the divine nature after escaping from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire,