3 To grow solid through suffering, trust the sovereign Lord (5:10-11). Trust is implicit in 5:6-7, is stated explicitly in 5:9 (be “firm in your faith”), and is strongly implicit in 5:10-11. Peter is saying, “God hasn’t forgotten you in your trial. He is the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ in the first Week5 (August 7, 2022) Preaching text: 1 Peter 5:1–14; accompanying text: Matthew 20:25-28. First Peter cultivates Christian identity defined by mutuality and kinship across 1Peter 5. 5 To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder and a witness of Christ’s sufferings who also will share in the glory to be revealed: 2 Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, watching over them—not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not pursuing dishonest gain, but eager DefinitionsInterlinear Library Topical Studies X-References Commentaries: Forerunner Commentary What is the Forerunner Commentary? << 1 Peter 5:4 1 Peter 5:6 >> 1 1Peter 5:5-7. 5 In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”. 6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Thebest manuscripts omit the word " glory" in this place. St. Peter has been directing the thoughts of his readers to the power of God. He will make them perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle them; he can, for "his is the might forever and ever." The Christian may well say his " Amen" with a thankful and adoring heart. 1 Peter 5:11. 1Peter 5:1. Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as your fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker also of the glory that is to be revealed, (a) The 1Peter 5:5 - You younger men, likewise, be subject to your elders; and all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for God is opposed to the KRwL08.