Scattered · Session 4 of 9

Foreigners and exiles, and the example

1 Peter 2:11-25

Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

1 Peter 2:11

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The shape of the hour

  1. Welcome Back to the season's word — 'foreigners and exiles' — and what Peter asks of people living as both.
  2. Highlight — reading the passage Read aloud, then the phrase that caught you. This is the first passage in the study where the reading tends to get quieter.
  3. Explain Conduct among the Gentiles, submission to authority, and then the turn to Christ as the example — written to people with no power in any of those relationships.
  4. Apply The hard part, said plainly: how do you carry yourself where you have no standing and are watched anyway? Digital ministry lives in exactly that position, and this passage does not flatter it.
  5. Respond What changes on Monday, and the question the week's devotionals pick up from here.

Timings land with the recording.

The passage

Every verse this session works through, in order.

11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

12Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.

13Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether to the king as the supreme authority,

14or to governors as those sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.

15For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorance of foolish men.

16Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.

17Treat everyone with high regard: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.

18Servants, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but even to those who are unreasonable.

19For if anyone endures the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God, this is to be commended.

20How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.

21For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:

22“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”

23When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.

24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

25For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain

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