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5:6 Humble yourselves Peter urges his audience to be humble while they wait for God to honor their faithfulness in His timing.
This call to humility reinforces the repeated call in the letter to endure various kinds of suffering for their faith by placing their trust in God’s plan (see 4:19 and note).
4:19 & Note
4:19 (NET) So then let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust their souls to a faithful Creator as they do good
(FSB Note) Peter asserts that God desires for Christians in the Roman Empire—including himself and the churches to which he writes—to consider their suffering as a means of becoming more like Christ. They suffer according to God’s will by suffering as Jesus would
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