Submitto God, Resist the Devil. 5 Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, kall of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for. l“God resists the proud, But mgives grace to the humble.”. Read more Explain verse Share.
1 (1) A call to elders. The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed: a. The elders who are among you I exhort: Peter will give a word of exhortation to the elders who are among the Christians reading this letter.
1Peter 1:6-7New King James Version. 6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been [ a]grieved by various trials, 7 that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus
In1 Peter 5:5, Peter quotes Proverbs 3:34: “Surely He [God] scorns the scornful, but gives grace to the humble” (NKJV). The sin of pride is linked with rebellion against God (Ezekiel 28:13–17). A proud person sets himself against God, causing God, in turn, to set Himself against the proud.
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