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40 free 1 Peter trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
1 Peter is a short letter written to scattered churches under pressure. In five chapters it tells believers who are being mocked and shut out how to hold on to hope, how to behave toward neighbours, rulers and one another, and why suffering for doing good is not the end of the story. Its images are vivid and its advice is practical, which is why so many of its verses are learned by heart. This quiz works through the letter chapter by chapter. Chapter 1 covers the opening greeting and the call to holiness. Chapter 2 covers the stone passage of verses 4 to 6, the titles given to God's people and the example of Christ's suffering. Chapters 3 and 4 cover the advice to wives and husbands, the readiness to explain one's faith, and the difficult verses about Christ preaching after his death. Chapter 5 covers the charge to church leaders and the closing greetings. A handful of questions look at who wrote the letter, where and when, with King James wording noted along the way. It suits Bible study groups, Sunday school classes, youth quiz teams and anyone reading through the letters of Peter who wants to check what has stuck. Every answer comes with a short explanation that points back to the text.
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Q 01According to 1 Peter 5:8, the devil prowls around like which animal, looking for someone to devour?
A roaring lion
A roaring lion is the image, and the next verse gives the response: resist him, firm in faith, knowing that believers across the world face the same suffering.
Q 02The Babylon that sends greetings at 1 Peter 5:13 is widely read as a code name for which city?
Rome
Rome is the usual reading, since the nickname cast the empire's capital as the old enemy of the Jews, a label thought to have spread after the Temple fell in AD 70.
Q 031 Peter 4:16 is one of only three New Testament verses to use which name for followers of Jesus?
Christian
Christian appears elsewhere only twice, both times in Acts, which says the name was first given to the disciples at Antioch.
Q 04Which 1896 Charles Sheldon novel opens with a minister writing a sermon on 1 Peter 2:21?
In His Steps
In His Steps, subtitled What Would Jesus Do?, was for decades one of America's best-selling books and gave later generations the WWJD motto.
Q 05Which lesser offender does 1 Peter 4:15 name beside the murderer and the thief?
A meddler
A meddler closes the list, and the King James Version spells the offence out as being a busybody in other men's matters.
Q 06What does 1 Peter 2:2 urge believers to crave, now that they have tasted the Lord's goodness?
Milk
Milk is what newborn babies cry for, and the letter wants its readers just as eager for whatever will help them grow up in their salvation.
Q 07Which Old Testament wife does 1 Peter 3:6 hold up as a model, noting that she called her husband lord?
Sarah
Sarah, the wife of Abraham, is the model, and the verse calls women who do right without giving way to fear her children.
Q 081 Peter 5:7 tells readers to cast all of what on God, for the simple reason that he cares for them?
Their anxiety
Their anxiety becomes care in the King James Version, which plays on the word twice: cast your care on him, for he careth for you.
Q 09Scholars who doubt Peter wrote 1 Peter cite its educated style, unusual for a Galilean of which trade?
Fisherman
Fisherman was Peter's trade before he followed Jesus, so the letter's schooling in rhetoric and philosophy leads some to credit a secretary or a later writer.
Q 10The five provinces greeted at 1 Peter 1:1, among them Pontus and Cappadocia, lay in which modern country?
Turkey
Turkey now covers all five, and the order in which they are named may trace the route of the messenger who carried the circular letter.
Q 111 Peter 1:7 calls tested faith more precious than which metal, which perishes though refined by fire?
Gold
Gold comes through the refiner's fire purer and still perishes, and the letter says trials prove faith in the same way, ready for the day Christ is revealed.
Q 12According to 1 Peter 1:12, who longs to look into the good news that the prophets foretold?
Angels
Angels, for all their place in heaven, are pictured peering in at a salvation the prophets served without receiving it themselves.
Q 131 Peter 1:19 compares Christ to which animal without blemish or spot, whose blood redeemed believers?
A lamb
A lamb is the image, and the letter says believers were bought back from an empty way of life not with silver or other perishable things but with his blood.
Q 21Which prophet's book supplies the words quoted at 1 Peter 2:6 about a cornerstone that believers can trust?
Isaiah
Isaiah is quoted again and again in the letter, and supplies nearly every line of its portrait of the sinless sufferer at the close of chapter 2.
Q 22According to 1 Peter 2:5, believers are being built like stones into what, to serve as a holy priesthood?
A spiritual house
A spiritual house is the picture, a temple made of people, in which believers offer sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Q 231 Peter 2:9 calls believers a chosen people, a holy nation and what kind of priesthood?
Royal
Royal is the word, and the verse states the purpose of such titles: to proclaim the excellence of the God who called them out of darkness.
Q 141 Peter 1:24, quoting a prophet, says all flesh is like what, while the word of the Lord stands forever?
Grass
Grass withers and its flowers fall, the quotation runs, and the letter adds that the enduring word is the very message its readers were told.
Q 15In the scripture quoted at 1 Peter 2:6, God lays a chosen and precious stone in which place?
Zion
Zion is where the stone is laid, and the quotation promises that whoever believes in him will never be put to shame.
Q 161 Peter 2:4 describes Christ as what kind of stone, rejected by people but chosen and precious to God?
Living
Living is the word, and the next verse extends it to believers, who are themselves called stones of the same kind being built together.
Q 171 Peter 3:21 says the floodwater that carried Noah's ark symbolises which rite that now saves believers?
Baptism
Baptism, the verse explains, is not the washing of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God.
Q 18Whom does the writer of 1 Peter call his son in the closing greetings, a name shared with a Gospel?
Mark
Mark is traditionally identified with the writer of the second Gospel, remembered in early church tradition as Peter's interpreter.
Q 19What does 1 Peter 5:4 promise faithful leaders of the flock when the Chief Shepherd appears?
A crown of glory
A crown of glory that will never fade is promised to those who lead willingly and by example, not for gain or by lording it over others.
Q 20The command to be holy because God is holy, quoted at 1 Peter 1:16, comes from which book of the Law?
Leviticus
Leviticus gives the command more than once, and the letter applies it to all of life: be holy in everything you do.
Q 24Which word does the King James Version use at 1 Peter 2:9 to describe the people who belong to God alone?
Peculiar
Peculiar first meant belonging exclusively to one person, from a Latin word for private property, so the phrase means a people owned as God's special possession.
Q 251 Peter 2:24 says Christ bore our sins in his body on what, so that believers might die to sin?
The tree
The tree is the letter's word for the cross, and the same verse adds that by his wounds its readers have been healed.
Q 261 Peter 2:25 says its readers were once like which animals going astray, before they returned to God?
Sheep
Sheep that wander is a picture borrowed from the prophets, and the verse says the strays have now come back to the Shepherd and Overseer of their souls.
Q 271 Peter 3:4 says a wife's unfading beauty lies in what kind of inner character, precious in God's sight?
Gentle and quiet
Gentle and quiet is set against the outward show named in the verse before: braided hair, jewelry and fine clothes.
Q 281 Peter 3:9 tells readers not to repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with what instead?
A blessing
A blessing is the reply the letter asks for, because its readers were called to this so that they might inherit one themselves.
Q 29Which branch of theology takes its name from the Greek word for a defense, used at 1 Peter 3:15?
Apologetics
Apologetics comes from apologia, the speech a defendant gave in a Greek court, and the verse insists that the reply be given with respect and a clear conscience.
Q 301 Peter 5:5 tells everyone, young and old, to clothe themselves with which quality toward one another?
Humility
Humility is to be worn like a garment, and the following verse promises that God will lift up in due time those who bow under his mighty hand.