1 Peter 2:20

But they who endure afflictions on account of their offences, what praise have they? But if, when ye do well, they vex you, and ye endure it; then great is your praise with God.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

In Context

19For there is favor before God for them who, for the sake of a good conscience, endure sorrows that come upon them wrongfully.

21For unto this were ye called; because the Messiah also died for us, and left us this pattern, that ye should walk in his steps.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:47And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye that is not common? Do not even publicans do this?

Mark 14:65And some began to spit in his face, and to buffet him, saying: Prophesy thou. And the servants smote him on the cheeks.

Romans 12:1I beseech you, therefore, my brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, by a rational service of him.

Ephesians 5:10And search out what is pleasing before our Lord:

1 Peter 2:19For there is favor before God for them who, for the sake of a good conscience, endure sorrows that come upon them wrongfully.

1 Peter 3:17For it is profitable to you, that ye suffer evil while ye do good deeds, if this should be the pleasure of God; and not, while ye do evil deeds.

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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