1 Peter 2:20
For how much credit is there if you sin and then endure while being punished? But if you have done good and then you suffer while being punished, this is worthy of praise from God.
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Matthew 5:47If you greet only your brothers, what do you do more than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same thing?
Mark 14:65Some began to spit on him and to cover his face and strike him and say to him, “Prophesy!” The officers took him and beat him.
Romans 12:1I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service.
Ephesians 5:10and find out what is pleasing to the Lord.
1 Peter 2:19For it is praiseworthy if anyone endures pain while suffering injustice because of his awareness of God.
1 Peter 3:17It is better, if God desires, that you suffer for doing good than 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 →