who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
"Peter’s point is that if he and his readers have a special relationship to God by virtue of their calling and their new birth, then it is all the more urgent that they remember who he is in himself, and display the reverence that God deserves." [Note: Michaels, p. 60.] 