1 Peter 2:20
For what prayse is it if when ye be buffeted for youre fautes ye take it paciently? But and yf when ye do well ye suffer wronge and take it paciently then is there thanke with God.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
19For it is thankeworthye yf a man for conscience towarde god endure grefe sufferinge wrongfully.
Cross References
Matthew 5:47And yf ye be frendly to youre brethren onlye: what singuler thynge doo ye?
Mark 14:65And some begane to spit at him and to cover his face and to bete him with fistes and to saye vnto him arede vnto vs. And the servauntes boffeted him on the face.
Romans 12:1I beseche you therfore brethren by the mercyfulnes of God that ye make youre bodyes aquicke sacrifise holy and acceptable vnto God which is youre resonable seruynge of god.
Ephesians 5:10Accept that which is pleasinge to the Lorde:
1 Peter 2:19For it is thankeworthye yf a man for conscience towarde god endure grefe sufferinge wrongfully.
1 Peter 3:17It is better (yf the wyll of God be so) that ye suffre for well doynge then for evyll doynge.
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 →