1 Peter 4:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Therefore, let those suffering in accordance with God’s will entrust their lives to a faithful Creator, while continuing to do good. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore, those who are ill-treated and suffer in accordance with God's will must do right and commit their souls [in charge as a deposit] to the One Who created [them] and will never fail [them]. American Standard Version (1901) Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commit their souls in well-doing unto a faithful Creator. Common English Bible So then, those who suffer because they follow God’s will should commit their lives to a trustworthy creator by doing what is right. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, too, let those who suffer according to the will of God commend their souls by good deeds to the faithful Creator. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God, commend their souls in good deeds to the faithful Creator. |
“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. After that I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”
The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.
Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.
the people whom I formed for myself so that they might declare my praise.
everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
My God sent his angel and shut the lions’ mouths so that they would not hurt me, because I was found blameless before him; also before you, O king, I have done no wrong.”
Then Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” Having said this, he breathed his last.
While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
to those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life,
and for this reason I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know the one in whom I have put my trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.
For it is God’s will that by doing right you should silence the ignorance of the foolish.
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil.
who in former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight lives, were saved through water.