1 Peter 2:20
What credit do you get if you endure when you sin and are beaten for it? But if you endure when you do good and suffer for it, this finds favor with God.
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Matthew 5:47And if you greet only your friends, what are you doing that is out of the ordinary? Do not even the tax collectors do that?
Mark 14:65Then some began to spit on him, to blindfold him, and to beat him, saying to him, “ Prophesy!” And the officers kept striking him with the palms of their hands.
Romans 12:1I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God, your reasonable religious service.
Ephesians 5:10Carefully determine what is pleasing to the Lord.
1 Peter 2:19For there is favor upon anyone who endures pain while suffering unjustly for the sake of conscience toward God.
1 Peter 3:17For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that is God's will, than to suffer 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 →