1 Peter 2:19

New Century Version

A person might have to suffer even when it is unfair, but if he thinks of God and can stand the pain, God is pleased.

Cross References

Job 21:27

“I know very well your thoughts and your plans to wrong me.

Psalm 119:86

All of your commands can be trusted. Liars are hurting me. Help me!

Psalm 35:19

Do not let my enemies laugh at me; they hate me for no reason. Do not let them make fun of me; they have no cause to hate me.

Psalm 38:19

My enemies are strong and healthy, and many hate me for no reason.

Psalm 69:4

There are more people who hate me for no reason than hairs on my head; powerful enemies want to destroy me for no reason. They make me pay back what I did not steal.

Luke 6:32

If you love only the people who love you, what praise should you get? Even sinners love the people who love them.

John 15:21

They will do all this to you on account of me, because they do not know the One who sent me.

Acts 11:23

Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and full of faith. When he reached Antioch and saw how God had blessed the people, he was glad. He encouraged all the believers in Antioch always to obey the Lord with all their hearts, and many people became followers of the Lord.

Romans 13:5

So you must yield to the government, not only because you might be punished, but because you know it is right.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But God’s grace has made me what I am, and his grace to me was not wasted. I worked harder than all the other apostles. (But it was not I really; it was God’s grace that was with me.)

2 Corinthians 1:12

This is what we are proud of, and I can say it with a clear conscience: In everything we have done in the world, and especially with you, we have had an honest and sincere heart from God. We did this by God’s grace, not by the kind of wisdom the world has.

2 Corinthians 8:1

And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace God gave the churches in Macedonia.

2 Timothy 1:12

I am suffering now because I tell the Good News, but I am not ashamed, because I know Jesus, the One in whom I have believed. And I am sure he is able to protect what he has trusted me with until that day.

Hebrews 10:2

If the law could make them perfect, the sacrifices would have already stopped. The worshipers would be made clean, and they would no longer have a sense of sin.

1 Peter 2:20

If you are beaten for doing wrong, there is no reason to praise you for being patient in your punishment. But if you suffer for doing good, and you are patient, then God is pleased.

1 Peter 4:15

Do not suffer for murder, theft, or any other crime, nor because you trouble other people.