1 Peter 2:20
For what glory [is it], if sinning and being buffeted ye shall bear [it]? but if, doing good and suffering, ye shall bear [it], this is acceptable with God.
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Matthew 5:47And if ye should salute your brethren only, what do ye extraordinary? Do not also the Gentiles the same?
Mark 14:65And some began to spit upon him, and cover up his face, and buffet him, and say to him, Prophesy; and the officers struck him with the palms of their hands.
Romans 12:1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your intelligent service.
Ephesians 5:10proving what is agreeable to the Lord;
1 Peter 2:19For this [is] acceptable, if one, for conscience sake towards God, endure griefs, suffering unjustly.
1 Peter 3:17For [it is] better, if the will of God should will it, to suffer [as] well-doers than [as] evildoers;
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 →