If any man speaks, let it be as it were oracles of God. If any man serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
"This passage is transitional. Looking backward, it serves as a kind of postscript to 1 Peter 2:11 to 1 Peter 4:6 (and in particular to the promise of vindication developed in 1 Peter 3:13 to 1 Peter 4:6). Its closing doxology forms an inclusion with 1 Peter 2:12: God is ’glorified’ in the ministry of Christian believers to one another, just as Peter had earlier envisioned their enemies glorifying God on ’the day of visitation.’ Looking ahead, the passage also anticipates on a small scale the issues to be developed more fully in 1 Peter 4:12 to 1 Peter 5:11." [Note: Michaels, p. 254.] 