1 Peter 2:20
For what shevach (praise) is it if, after committing chatta'im (sins) and being beaten, you endure? But if being osei tzedek (doers of what is right) and suffering, then you endure, this is worthy of shevach before Hashem.
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Matthew 5:47And if you give Drishat Shalom (greetings) only to your Achim, + 5:47 b'Moshiach what extraordinary thing are you doing? Don't even the Goyim do the same?
Mark 14:65And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to strike him and to say to him, Letʼs hear a dvar nevuah (word of prophecy)! And the shomrim (guards) took custody of him by slapping Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.
Romans 12:1I appeal to you, therefore, Achim b'Moshiach, through the rachamei Hashem (mercies of G-d), to present your geviyah, + 12:1 Gn 47:18 all of your being, as a korban chai (living sacrifice), kadosh (holy) and acceptable to Hashem, + 12:1 Gn 8:21 which is your spiritual avodas kodesh service.
Ephesians 5:10Proving that which is well-pleasing be'einei Hashem (in the eyes of G-d).
1 Peter 2:19For this is worthy of shevach (praise, commendation) if, because of a consciousness of Hashem, anyone bears up under tzoros (troubles) while suffering unjustly.
1 Peter 3:17For im yirtzeh Hashem (if the L-rd wills), it is better to suffer tzoros for doing mitzvot than for doing ra'ah.
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 →