Scattered
1 Peter
Session 7 of 9 · 1 Peter 4:1-11
Love covers, and gifts are for serving
Write your HEAR journal on this passage: highlight, explain, apply, respond.
Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8
Review
Suffering for doing good, and the reason for your hope
The passage
1 Peter 4:1-11
Every verse this session works through, in order.
1Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.
2Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
4Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.
5But they will have to give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
6That is why the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
8Above all, love one another deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
9Show hospitality to one another without complaining.
10As good stewards of the manifold grace of God, each of you should use whatever gift he has received to serve one another.
11If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
The shape of the study
- Welcome The letter turns from enduring to building — what a scattered people are actually FOR.
- Highlight — reading the passage Read aloud, then the phrase that caught you. 'Show hospitality without complaining' is the one that gets a laugh and then does not let go.
- Explain Love covering a multitude of sins, hospitality, and gifts held as stewardship rather than as identity — spoken to people who had very little to be hospitable with.
- Apply What hospitality means when the door is a link, and what it costs to keep offering it. Also the question nobody asks out loud: what happens to a gift that nobody is watching you use?
- Respond What changes on Monday, and the question the week's devotionals pick up from here.
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