1 Peter 2:19

For it is an acceptable thing to God, if from a sense of duty to him, a man endures a wrong, even suffering unjustly.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

18Household slaves, submit yourselves to your masters in all reverence; not only to the kind and gentle, but also to the unreasonable.

20For what credit is it if, when you are struck for a fault, you take it patiently? But if when you are doing well and suffer for it, you always take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:10"Blessed are those who have been persecuted in the cause of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

John 15:21"But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they know not Him who sent me.

Romans 13:5Wherefore you must needs be in subjection, not only because of fear, but also for conscience sake.

2 Corinthians 1:12For this is my proud boast, the testimony of my conscience, that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that I have conducted myself in the world, and above all in my relations with 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 →

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