1 Peter, Chapter 3, verses 10-22
8 exhorting all men to unity and love, 14 and to suffer persecution, 19 He declareth also the benefits of Christ toward the old worldMark, Chapter 12, verses 18-27
18 convinceth the error of the Saducees, who denied the resurrection12
12:19 Deu 25:5.
12:25 When they rise from the dead, neither men marry nor women are given in marriage.
12:26 Exo 3:6.
12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living - That is, (if the argument be proposed at length,) since thecharacter of his being the God of any persons, plainly intimates a relation to them, not as dead, but as living; and since he cannot be said to be at present their God at all, if they are utterly dead; nor to be the God of human persons, such as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, consisting of souls and bodies, if their bodies were to abide in everlasting death; there must needs be a future state of blessedness, and a resurrection of the body to share with the soul in it.
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3:10 For he that desireth to love life, and to see good days - That would make life amiable and desirable. Psa 34:12, etc
3:11 Let him seek - To live peaceably with all men.And pursue it - Even when it seems to flee from him.
3:12 The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous - For good.Anger appears in the whole face; love, chiefly in the eyes.
3:13 Who is he that will harm you - None can.
3:14 But if ye should suffer - This is no harm to you, but a good. Fear ye not their fear - The very words of the Septuagint, Isa 8:12-13. Let not that fear be in you which the wickedfeel.
3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts - Have an holy fear, and a full trust in his wise providence. The hope - Of eternal life. With meekness - For anger would hurt your cause as well as your soul. And fear - A filial fear of offending God, and a jealousy over yourselves, lest ye speak amiss.
3:16 Having a good conscience - So much the more beware of anger, to which the very consciousness of your innocence may betray you. Join with a good conscience meekness and fear, and you obtain a complete victory. Your good conversation in Christ - That is, which flows from faith in him.
3:17 It is infinitely better, if it be the will of God, ye should suffer. His permissive will appears from his providence.
3:18 For - This is undoubtedly best, whereby we are most conformed to Christ. Now Christ suffered once - To suffer no more.For sins - Not his own, but ours. The just for the unjust - The word signifies, not only them who have wronged their neighbours, but those who have transgressed any of the commands of God; as the preceding word, just, denotes a person who has fulfilled, not barely social duties, but all kind of righteousness. That he might bring us to God - Now to his gracious favour, hereafter to his blissful presence, by the same steps of suffering and of glory. Being put to death in the flesh - As man. But raised to life by the Spirit - Both by his own divine power, and by the power of the Holy Ghost.
3:19 By which Spirit he preached - Through the ministry of Noah. To the spirits in prison - The unholy men before the flood, who were then reserved by the justice of God, as in a prison, till he executed the sentence upon them all; and are now also reserved to the judgment of the great day.
3:20 When the longsuffering of God waited - For an hundred and twenty years; all the time the ark was preparing: during which Noah warned them all to flee from the wrath to come.
3:21 The antitype whereof - The thing typified by the ark, even baptism, now saveth us - That is, through the water of baptism we are saved from the sin which overwhelms the world as a flood: not, indeed, the bare outward sign, but the inward grace; a divine consciousness that both our persons and our actions are accepted through him who died and rose again for us.
3:22 Angels and authorities and powers - That is, all orders both of angels and men.