Beginning in v. 5 and continuing through v. 7, Peter turns his attention from the shepherds to the sheep.

It is imperative that both the shepherds and the sheep understand their priorities.

How can this be? Peter answers that question and more in the remaining verses.

Three questions regarding Christian suffering so that the readers will know how to suffer in the name of Christ and for the glory of God.

In the context of the final judgment and the end of the age that Peter uses to impress three things into the minds and hearts of his readers

Here Peter provides two reasons why his readers (and thus all Christians) must anticipate and prepare to for the sake of righteousness.

Here we have one of the most contested texts in the whole New Testament and one of the clearest and most compact presentation of the gospel

From 3:13-5:11 Peter will dwell upon and flesh out the various implications of Christian suffering.

Peter here summarizes “Practical Sojourning” in terms of both the church (v. 8) and the watching world (vv. 9-12).

Peter outlines the main duty for Christian wives and husbands.

In order to complete his exhortation to suffering slaves, Peter holds up the suffering slave of YHWH as an example.

After commanding submission from citizens, Peter now turns his attention to slaves.

Peter tells us the practical benefit of submission as well as helping understand the right mindset of this submission.

As strangers and aliens, Peter exhorts the church to be both salt and light in a dead and dark world.

3 divinely initiated realities upon which the entire purpose and function of the church rests.

3 Old Testament text that bring 3 implications regarding the necessity of Jesus Christ as the church’s living foundation stone.

Peter puts forth two foundational principles which require and assume all his previous exhortations for believers to be holy.

Peter demands three things that every Christian must know in respect to their personal spiritual growth.

The change noticed here is from the vertical demands upon Christians to their God and the horizontal demands upon Christians to each other.

Peter crystalizes two key components of a healthy and holy fear of Yhwh.