1 Peter 4:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ Therefore, let those suffering in accordance with God’s will entrust their lives to a faithful Creator, while continuing to do good.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ 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)

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ 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

¹⁹ Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God, commend their souls in good deeds to the faithful Creator.

1 Peter 4:19 Cross References

Esther 4:16

“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.”

Psalm 138:8

The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.

Psalm 31:5

Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.

Psalm 37:5

Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.

Isaiah 43:21

the people whom I formed for myself so that they might declare my praise.

Isaiah 43:7

everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

Daniel 6:22

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.”

Luke 23:46

Then Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” Having said this, he breathed his last.

Acts 7:59

While they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”

Romans 2:7

to those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life,

2 Timothy 1:12

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.

1 Peter 2:15

For it is God’s will that by doing right you should silence the ignorance of the foolish.

1 Peter 3:17

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil.

1 Peter 3:20

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.