1 Peter 2:19
For it is thankeworthye yf a man for conscience towarde god endure grefe sufferinge wrongfully.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 5:10Blessed are they which suffre persecucion for rightwesnes sake: for theirs ys the kyngdome of heuen.
John 15:21But all these thinges will they do vnto you for my names sake because they have not knowen him that sent me.
Romans 13:5Wherfore ye must nedes obeye not for feare of vengeaunce only: but also because of conscience.
2 Corinthians 1:12Oure reioysynge is this the testimony of oure conscience that in synglenes and godly purenes and not in flesshly wysdome but by the grace of God we have had oure conuersacion in the worlde and most of all to you wardes.
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 →