Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in 1 Peter 3:10, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Psalms 34:12
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
- James 1:26
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
- 1 Peter 2:22
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
- 1 Peter 2:1
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
- Revelation 14:5
And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
- James 3:1
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
- John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
- Proverbs 8:35
For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
- Proverbs 3:2
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
- John 12:25
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
- Matthew 19:17
And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
- Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
More to meet God in 1 Peter
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.