1 Peter 2:19
For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience towards God.
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In The King James Version
For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 35:19Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
Psalms 69:4Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.
Matthew 5:10Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
John 15:21But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
Romans 13:5Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.
2 Corinthians 1:12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly towards you.
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 →