1 Peter 2:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For it is a commendable thing if, being aware of God, a person endures pain while suffering unjustly.

Cross References

Job 21:27

“Oh, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.

Psalm 119:86

All your commandments are enduring; I am persecuted without cause; help me!

Psalm 35:19

Do not let my treacherous enemies rejoice over me or those who hate me without cause wink the eye.

Psalm 38:19

Those who are my foes without cause are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully.

Psalm 69:4

More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; many are those who would destroy me, my enemies who accuse me falsely. What I did not steal, must I now restore?

Luke 6:32

“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

John 15:21

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.

Acts 11:23

When he came and saw the grace of God, he rejoiced, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast devotion,

Romans 13:5

Therefore one must be subject, not only because of wrath but also because of conscience.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I but the grace of God that is with me.

2 Corinthians 1:12

Indeed, this is our boast, the testimony of our conscience: we have behaved in the world with holiness and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God—and all the more toward you.

2 Corinthians 8:1

We want you to know, brothers and sisters, about the grace of God that has been granted to the churches of Macedonia,

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.

Hebrews 10:2

Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, since the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sin?

1 Peter 2:20

If you endure when you are beaten for doing wrong, what credit is that? But if you endure when you do good and suffer for it, this is a commendable thing before God.

1 Peter 4:15

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, a criminal, or even as a mischief maker.