1 Peter 2
NKJV
Commentaries

Show in the text

Up to 5 commentaries at a time. Each excerpt opens in full.

New King James Version

1 Peter 2:18-23

18Servants, be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.

19For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully.

20For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God.

21For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:

22“Who committed no sin, Nor was deceit found in His mouth”;

23who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously;

Read all of 1 Peter 2

Commentaries on 1 Peter 2

New King James Version — © 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc