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How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.

Chapter Outline

1. He exhorts to put away wickedness;
4. showing that Christ is the foundation whereupon they are built.
11. He beseeches them also to abstain from sinful desires;
13. to be obedient to authorities;
18. and teaches servants how to obey their masters;
20. patiently suffering for well doing, after the example of Christ.

Timeline

64 AD

Peter Writes his First Letter

People

Places

Asia, Bithynia, Cappadocia, Galatia, Pontus, Zion

Topics

Acceptable, Approval, Bear, Bearing, Beaten, Beating, Blow, Buffeted, Commendable, Credit, Endure, Evil, Faults, Favor, Finds, Glory, God's, Gracious, Harshly, Patience, Patiently, Pleasing, Punishment, Quietly, Receive, Renown, Sin, Sinning, Suffer, Suffering, Treated, Wrong

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Parallel Verses

NASB: For what credit is there if, when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? But if when you do what is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God.

KJV: For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

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