1 Peter 2:19
For this is what grace is: to endure life's pain and unfair suffering, keeping your focus on God.
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In The King James Version
For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
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Psalms 35:19Don't let my enemies take pleasure in my troubles, those people who hate me and tell lies about me, gloating over me for no reason.
Psalms 69:4Those who hate me for no reason are more than the number of hairs on my head. Many enemies try to destroy me by telling lies. How can I give back what I didn't steal?
Matthew 5:10Blessed are those persecuted for what is right, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
John 15:21But everything they do to you will be because of me, for they don't know the one who sent me.
Romans 13:5So it's important to do as you're told, not just because of the threat of punishment, but because of what your conscience tells you.
2 Corinthians 1:12We take pride in the fact—and our conscience confirms it—that we have acted properly towards people, and especially to you. We have followed God's principles of holiness and sincerity, not according to worldly wisdom but through the grace of God.
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 →