Sacred Scripture · New Testament
1 Peter
5 Chapters · Douay-Rheims Bible · New Testament
About This Book
The first Epistle of St. Peter, though brief, contains much doctrine concerning Faith, Hope, and Charity, with various instructions to all persons of what state or condition soever. The Apostle commands submission to rulers and superiors and exhorts all to the practice of a virtuous life, in imitation of Christ. This Epistle is written with such apostolical dignity as to manifest the supreme authority with which its writer, the Prince of the Apostles, had been vested by his Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. He wrote it at Rome, which figuratively he calls Babylon, about fifteen years after our Lord’s Ascension. (For more information, see the article EPISTLES OF PETER in the Catholic Encyclopedia.)
Chapter Directory
- Chapter 1He gives thanks to God for the benefit of our being called to the true faith and to eternal life, into which we are to enter by many tribulations. He exhorts to holiness of life, considering the holiness of God and our redemption by the blood of Christ.
- Chapter 2We are to lay aside all guile and go to Christ the living stone, and, as being now his people, walk worthily of him, with submission to superiors and patience under sufferings.
- Chapter 3How wives are to behave to their husbands. What ornaments they are to seek. Exhortations to various Virtues.
- Chapter 4Exhortations to cease from sin, to mutual charity, to do all for the glory of God, to be willing to suffer for Christ.
- Chapter 5He exhorts both priests and laity to their respective duties and recommends to all humility and watchfulness.
Edition Record
- Book
- 1 Peter
- Translation
- Douay-Rheims Bible
- Old Testament
- First published at Douay in 1609
- New Testament
- First published at Rheims in 1582
- Revision and Notes
- Bishop Richard Challoner, 1749
- Historical Imprimatur
- James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, 1 September 1899