1 Peter (Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (IVP Numbered))

Grudem has written a concise commentary on the 1 Peter. I used this as one of my primary references recently while preaching through Peter's letter. I found this book to be a mixture of exegesis in combination with expositional insights. There were several times when Grudem's study was able to give

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me the right framework to understand and organize a passage as I developed my sermon. Grudem does not deal extensively with Petrine scholarship, say in the manner of Jobe's commentary, but he is familiar with it and does bring in key work by other scholars as needed. One weakness of this work was that there were several points in which Grudem made what appeared at first reading to be a correct interpretation of the text, but when I read the parallel commentary by Schreiner I consistently found Schreiner's understanding to be more correct. As a pastor preaching through 1 Peter I found this commentary to be a worthwhile complement to the commentaries by others that became my primary references.

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