1 Peter 2:19

For these are pleasing before Aloha, who, for the sake of a good conscience, endure the afflictions that come upon them unjustly.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

In Context

18And those servants who are among you, be subject to your masters with reverence; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the hard and the severe.

20For they who on account of their offences suffer tribulations, what praise have they? But when you do well and they afflict you, and you endure, then doth your praise become great with Aloha.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:10Blessed they who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

John 15:21But these all will they do to you on account of my name, because they know not Him who sent me.

Romans 13:5And because of this are we bound to be subject, not for the wrath only, but also because of conscience.

2 Corinthians 1:12For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and purity, and by the grace of Aloha, we are conversant in the world; and not with the wisdom of the flesh, and especially with you yourselves.

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 →

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