1 Peter 3:17

For 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.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

In Context

16in meekness and respect, as having a good conscience; so that they who speak against you as bad men, may be ashamed, for having calumniated your good conduct in the Messiah.

18For the Messiah also once died for our sins, the righteous for sinners; that he might bring you to God. And he died in body, but lived in spirit.

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Cross References

Matthew 26:39And retiring a little, he fell on his face, and prayed, and said: My Father, if it can be so, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I choose, but as thou.

Acts 21:14And as he was not to be persuaded by us, we desisted; and we said: Let the pleasure of our Lord take place.

1 Peter 2:20But 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.

1 Peter 4:15Only let none of you suffer, as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer.

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 3:17-18

Good Conscience and Good Conversation. ( a. d. 66.) 16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. 17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. The confession of a Christian's faith cannot credibly be supported but by the two means here specified— a good conscience and a good conversation. conscience is good when it does its office well, when it is… Read the whole commentary →

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