Further counsels to watchfulness, and to sympathy, closing with a renewed promise of God's reward, and a short doxology.
1 Peter 5:8. seeking whom: the rendering seeking someone to devour, founded on a better reading, is preferable. It is more in accord with the figure and less suggestive of the adversary's success.
1 Peter 5:9. knowing, etc.: the Gr. words are not easy to render (cf. mg.), but the translation given by Moffatt is much to be preferred, and learn to pay the same tax of suffering as the rest of your brotherhood throughout the world. The words constitute a call to active participation in the trials of the community (2 Timothy 2:3 mg.). in the world may point to a general persecution.
1 Peter 5:11. to him be may be to him is, i.e. an assertion of a fact rather than an ascription.