1 Peter 2:20
For what praise is due, if, when you are punished for your faults, you endure it patiently? But if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you endure it patiently, this is praiseworthy in the sight of God.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
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Matthew 5:47And if you salute your brethren only, in what do you excel? Do not even the publicans so?
Mark 14:65And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to strike him with their fists, and to say to him: Give a response. And the attendants struck him with their open hands.
Romans 12:1I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
Ephesians 5:10learning what is acceptable to the Lord;
1 Peter 2:19For this is praiseworthy, if any one, on account of conscience toward God, endure sorrows, suffering unjustly.
1 Peter 3:17For it is better, if such be the will of God, that you suffer for doing good, than for doing evil.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 2:14-25
Submission to Magistrates; Various Exhortations; Christ's Example as a Sufferer. ( a. d. 66.) 13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. 15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: 16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the… Read the whole commentary →