Chapter 1 of 1 Peter closes with a call to holiness. As believers, our lives are to look different from the way the world lives.

We will face trials and struggles in our lives that we may not understand in the here and now.

After Peter greeted the readers, he turned to the important truths: the nature of salvation, reality of trials and certainty of hope.

While some scholars disagree on the date and authorship of 1 Peter, it has been traditionally believed to have been written by Peter.