Likewise
July 21, 2023
“Likewise”
Blessings folk!
The first word of the next verse is important.
Often we just breeze through words and do not give heed to their import.
The word - “likewise”.
“Likewise” what? :)
In the same manner as that which just proceeded.
Read the verse and see what the “likewise” might reference/mean.
1 Pe 5:5
Likewise,
you who are younger,
be subject to the elders.
Clothe yourselves,
all of you,
with humility toward one another,
for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
ESV
Ah…
Likewise you younger.
Peter had exhorted the elders.
Now he exhorts the younger.
So, in the same way as the elders, the younger are to do something.
They are to be subject to the elders.
They are to clothe themselves with humility.
But wait!
The “clothe yourselves” is to all.
Young.
Elder.
All.
All believers are instructed to walk/live in humility before OneAnother.
May we do so…manifesting the humility of the Lord.
Knowing that God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.