Verse 9
whom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.
Whom withstand ... Satan is not to be yielded to; whatever he may do to the bodies of Christians, there is really nothing that he is able to do to them.
Stedfast in your faith ... A glance at the marginal reading in the ASV shows that this should be translated "the faith," and thus be understood objectively as "the Christian faith," not as a sinner's subjective "trust/faith."
The same sufferings ... See under 1 Peter 5:2.
Who are in the world ... There is a poignant suggestion in this that being "in the world" was one and the same thing as being under Nero and his persecution. Someone has said that in the times of the Caesars, the world itself was but a dreary prison for those who were proscribed by the emperor.
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