1 Peter 2
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1 Peter 2:19-23

19For this finds favor, if for the sake of 1conscience toward God a person endures 2grief when suffering unjustly.

20For what credit is there if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if 3when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God.

21For 4you have been called for this purpose, 5because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you 6an example, so that you would follow in His steps,

22He who 7committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth;

238and while being 9abusively insulted, He did not insult in return; while suffering, He did not threaten, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously;

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Notes

  1. 1. 1 Peter 2:19 Rom 13:5; 1 Pet 3:14, 16f ↩
  2. 2. 1 Peter 2:19 Or pain ↩
  3. 3. 1 Peter 2:20 1 Pet 3:17 ↩
  4. 4. 1 Peter 2:21 Acts 14:22; 1 Pet 3:9 ↩
  5. 5. 1 Peter 2:21 1 Pet 3:18; 4:1, 13 ↩
  6. 6. 1 Peter 2:21 Matt 11:29; 16:24 ↩
  7. 7. 1 Peter 2:22 Is 53:9; 2 Cor 5:21 ↩
  8. 8. 1 Peter 2:23 Lit who ↩
  9. 9. 1 Peter 2:23 Is 53:7; Heb 12:3; 1 Pet 3:9 ↩

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