1 Peter 5 Bible study: The true grace of God

The chapter opens, "Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed:" (5:1) (tap exhort, fellow elder), "shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily; not for dishonest gain, but willingly;" (5:2) "not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock." (5:3). "When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away." (5:4) (tap chief Shepherd, fade away). These notes give this chapter as the WEB has it, explain it no further than its own words and the lexicons, and apply it to no one, no church, people or group, then or now. They reckon no time for the revealing 5:1 and 5:4 speak of. Behind sufferings in 5:1 is the noun Favor's 1 Peter 4 studies and counts in the letter, and behind revealed in 5:1 the verb Favor's 1 Peter 1 studies and counts in the letter.

Psalms 55:22→leads to1 Peter 5:10

Peter, "an apostle of Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 1:1), writes, "Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time" (1 Peter 5:6), "casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you" (1 Peter 5:7). The psalm says, "Cast your burden on the LORD and he will sustain you" (Psalm 55:22). 1 Peter doesn't name the psalm, and the WEB words the two differently (your burden in the psalm, all your worries in 1 Peter), so setting them side by side is a reading. It rests on a shared subject: handing what weighs on you over to God. Peter goes on to his readers' sufferings (1 Peter 5:8-9), and closes the same charge with a prayer that names Jesus: "But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you" (1 Peter 5:10). One reading hears the psalm's call given again in 1 Peter, to people God "called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus" (1 Peter 5:10), while they suffer. Another reads 1 Peter 5:7 as Peter's own words, an echo at most, and draws no line from the psalm, since 1 Peter doesn't cite it. Neither reading makes the psalmist Jesus, or says the psalm speaks of him.

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Strong's gives it as made "from G263", and its sense as "(by implication) fadeless". "you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away" (5:4): behind the WEB's doesn’t fade away is this one word, and the New Testament has it only here (counted in RP2018, and in all eight editions TAGNT compares). G263 is the word behind doesn’t fade away in "an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away" (1:4), and Favor's 1 Peter 1 studies it.