1 Peter 2:20
For what glory is there, if, committing sin and being buffeted, you endure it? But if, doing good and suffering you endure it, this is grace with God.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
19For this is grace, if, through the conscience of God, one bears sorrows and suffering unjustly.
Cross References
Matthew 5:47If you salute your brethren only, what do ye more abundantly? do not the heathens also the same thing?
Mark 14:65And certain ones began to spit on Him, and to cover His face, and to buffet Him, and say to Him, Prophesy: and the officers received Him with blows.
Romans 12:1I exhort you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, your reasonable service:
Ephesians 5:10proving what is acceptable to the Lord;
1 Peter 2:19For this is grace, if, through the conscience of God, one bears sorrows and suffering unjustly.
1 Peter 3:17For it is better, doing good, if the will of the Lord should will it, to suffer, rather than 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 →