1 Peter 2:20
However, there's no credit when you're punished for doing something wrong. But if you suffer for doing what is good and right, and you put up with it, then God's grace is with you.
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In Context
19For this is what grace is: to endure life's pain and unfair suffering, keeping your focus on God.
Cross References
Matthew 5:47If you only speak kindly to your family, what more are you doing than anyone else? Even the heathen do that!
Mark 14:65Then some of them began to spit on him. They blindfolded him, hit him with their fists, and said, “Why don't you prophesy then, you ‘Prophet’!” The guards took him away and beat him up.
Romans 12:1So I encourage you, my brothers and sisters, because of God's compassion for you, to dedicate your bodies as a living offering that is holy and pleasing to God. This is the logical way to worship.
Ephesians 5:10demonstrating what the Lord really appreciates.
1 Peter 2:19For this is what grace is: to endure life's pain and unfair suffering, keeping your focus on God.
1 Peter 3:17It's certainly better to suffer for doing good (if that's what God wants), than to suffer for doing wrong!
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 →