1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
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Study Note
The imperative 'humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God' draws on Ezekiel 20:33's image of God's 'outstretched hand' exercised in judgment and combines it with the wisdom tradition's assurance that God exalts the humble (Proverbs 3:34; James 4:10). The temporal qualifier 'in due time' (en kairō) maintains eschatological tension: exaltation is real but delayed, requiring the community to sustain humility through the interval rather than seizing premature vindication. The verse follows immediately after the call to 'cast all your anxiety upon him' (v. 7) in the Greek, suggesting that humility before God and release of anxiety are psychologically and theologically connected. The passage functions within the letter's broader theology of suffering as participation in Christ's own humiliation-then-exaltation trajectory (2:21–24; 3:18).
ترجمات أخرى
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;
be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time,
For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;
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