1 Peter 2:20
For what glory would there be, if committing faults, and being buffeted, ye suffered patiently? but if, when ye behave well, yet suffer, ye bear it patiently, this is graciously accepted of God.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
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Matthew 5:47And if ye embrace your brethren only, what do ye extraordinary? do not even the publicans so?
Mark 14:65And some began to spit upon him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say to him, Prophesy: and the servants slapped him on the face with their hands.
Romans 12:1I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
Ephesians 5:10proving what is acceptable to the Lord.
1 Peter 2:19For this is gracious conduct, if for conscience towards God, any man undergo sorrows, suffering wrongfully.
1 Peter 3:17For it is better (if it be God’s will) to suffer as well doers than as evil doers.
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 →