Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.
1 Peter 5:7 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.5.7.NLT
God cares about me so I should give my worries to him. Whether it's worrying about my eye or my health or other things in my life, God wants me to give Him my worries.
Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.
1 Peter 4:11 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.4.11.NLT
I must use the gifts God gave me to help the people around me in my life to bring glory to God through Jesus. I am doing things to help people to glorify God and not myself.
Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your hope as a believer, always be ready to explain it.
1 Peter 3:15 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.3.15.NLT
I must put Christ first in my life and worship Him. I must be ready to explain it to the unbelievers when they want to know about the hope Christ gives me in my life. When I worship Christ and live for him, it will show in how I live my life.
Finally, all of you should be of one mind. Sympathize with each other. Love each other as brothers and sisters. Be tenderhearted, and keep a humble attitude.
1 Peter 3:8 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.3.8.NLT
I need to sympathize with others and love them. I need to be tenderhearted and keep a humble attitude.
It is God’s will that your honorable lives should silence those ignorant people who make foolish accusations against you. For you are free, yet you are God’s slaves, so don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do evil.
1 Peter 2:15-16 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.2.15-16.NLT
I need to live an honorable life and not let my freedom become an excuse to do evil. Living an honorable life will silence ignorant people who will make false accusations against me.
But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.
1 Peter 2:9 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.2.9.NLT
I have to remember that I'm God's possession and show other people the goodness of God through how I live.
God the Father knew you and chose you long ago, and his Spirit has made you holy. As a result, you have obeyed him and have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus Christ. May God give you more and more grace and peace.
1 Peter 1:2 NLT
https://bible.com/bible/116/1pe.1.2.NLT
God chose me and gives me grace and peace in my life. I will obey Jesus and Holy Spirit has made me Holy.
