Scattered · Session 6 of 9

Suffering for doing good, and the reason for your hope

1 Peter 3:13-22

Who can harm you if you are zealous for what is good?

1 Peter 3:13

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The study happens live, in the room, with the chat open. The recording goes to YouTube afterwards, and this page gets the video, the outline and the full transcript.

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The shape of the hour

  1. Welcome The verse most of us can quote, sitting inside a passage most of us have not read around it.
  2. Highlight — reading the passage Read aloud, then the phrase that caught you. 'Always be prepared to give a defense' usually arrives first; 'with gentleness and respect' usually arrives second, and changes the first.
  3. Explain The hope that is in you — and the reason someone would ask about it in the first place, which is that something about the life is odd enough to prompt a question.
  4. Apply Giving an answer online, where the ask is rarely sincere and the audience is never only the person asking. Gentleness and respect are the hard half, not the polite half.
  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.

13Who can harm you if you are zealous for what is good?

14But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear what they fear; do not be shaken.”

15But in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give a defense to everyone who asks you the reason for the hope that is in you. But respond with gentleness and respect,

16keeping a clear conscience, so that those who slander you may be put to shame by your good behavior in Christ.

17For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,

19in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison

20who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.

21And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

22who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain

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