15那呼召我们的圣者，就是父，祂重生了我们，为要产生圣别的家庭─圣别的父同圣别的儿女。我们既是圣别的儿女，就该照圣别的生活方式而行；不然，父就要成为审判者，（四17，）对付我们的不圣。祂在我们里面用生命生了我们，使我们有祂圣别的性情；在我们外面用审判管教我们，使我们有分于祂的圣别。（来十二9～。）祂是照著我们的行为、工作审判我们，祂并不偏待人。所以我们当在寄居的时日中，凭著敬畏行事为人。我们若称祂为父，也当敬畏祂是审判我们的，并凭著敬畏过圣别的生活。在彼前一章十七节，彼得『不是说到那对人末后的审判；就那意义说，父不审判甚么人，乃将审判的事全交与子。（约五22。）这里所说的，乃是神在这世上每天对祂儿女所施行之行政的审判。所以这里说，在你们寄居的时日』。（Darby，达秘。）这是神对自己家人的审判。（彼前四17。）这两封书信是论到神的行政，所以一再说到神与主的审判，（二23，四5～6，17，彼后二3～4，9，三，）作主要的项目之一。这审判是从天使开始，（彼后二3～4，）经2:5-过旧约各世代的人。（5～9。）然后，在新约时代，审判是从神的家起首，（彼前一17，二23，四6，17，）一直持续到主的日子来到；（彼后三；）这日子就是在千年国以前，审判犹太人、信徒和外邦人的日子。千年国以后，一切的死者，包括人和鬼，都要受审判而灭亡，（彼前四5，彼后三7，）诸天和地也都要烧尽。（彼后三10下，12。）各种审判的结果都不一样。有些审判的结果是管教的对付，有些是时代的刑罚，有些是永远的沉沦。无论如何，主神要藉著这一切的审判，清理并洁净整个宇宙，使祂得著一个新天新地，成为充满祂义的新宇宙，（彼后三13，）使祂喜悦。
15The Holy One who has called us as the Father has regenerated us to produce a holy family — a holy Father with holy children. As holy children, we should walk in a holy manner of life. Otherwise, the Father will become the Judge (4:17) to deal with our unholiness. He begat us with life inwardly that we may have His holy nature. He disciplines us with judgment outwardly that we may partake of His holiness (Heb. 12:9-10). His judgment is according to our work, our conduct, without 10 respect of persons. Hence, we should pass the time of our sojourning in fear. If we call upon Him as our Father, we should also fear Him as our Judge and live a holy life in fear. In verse 17 Peter “is not speaking of the final judgment of the soul. In that sense ‘the Father does not judge anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son (John 5:22). The thing spoken of here is the daily judgment of God’s government in this world, exercised with regard to His children. Accordingly it says, ‘the time of your sojourning’ here” (Darby). This is God’s judgment on His own household (1 Pet. 4:17). Since these two Epistles are concerned with the government of God, the judgment of God and of the Lord is referred to repeatedly (2:23; 4:5-6,17; 2 Pet. 2:3-4, 9; 3:7), as one of the essential items. It began 7 from the angels (2 Pet. 2:3-4) and passed through the generations of man in the Old Testament (2 Pet. 9). Then in the New Testament age it begins from the house of God (1 Pet. 1:17; 2:23; 4:6, 17) and continues until the coming of the day of the Lord (2 Pet. 3:10), which will be a day of judgment on the Jews, the 10 believers, and the Gentiles before the millennium. After the millennium, all the dead, including men and demons, will be judged and perish (1 Pet. 4:5; 2 Pet. 3:7), and the heavens and the earth will be burned up (2 Pet. 3:10b, 12). The results of the varied judgments are not the same. Some judgments result in a disciplinary dealing, some in a dispensational punishment, and some in eternal perdition. However, by all these judgments the Lord God will clear up the entire universe and purify it so that He may have a new heaven and a new earth for a new universe filled with His righteousness (2 Pet. 3:13) for His delight.