1 Peter 2:20 Cross References - Anderson

²⁰ For what praise is due, if, when you are punished for your faults, you endure it patiently? But if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you endure it patiently, this is praiseworthy in the- sight of God.

¹⁰ Blessed are they that are persecuted on account of righteousness; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹ Blessed are you, when they shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say every evil thing against you, falsely, on my account. ¹² Rejoice, and leap for joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

⁴⁷ And if you salute your brethren only, in what do you excel? Do not even the publicans so?

⁶⁷ Then did they spit in his face, and strike him with their fists; some struck him with the open hand,

⁶⁵ And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to strike him with their fists, and to say to him: Give a response. And the attendants struck him with their open hands.

³² And if you love them that love you, what thanks have you? for even sinners love those who love them.

¹ I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. ² And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may learn what the will of God is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect.

¹¹ Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and are maltreated, and wander about without a home,

¹⁰ learning what is acceptable to the Lord;

¹⁸ But I have all, and abound. I am full, having received from Epaphroditus your gifts, a sweet odor, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

¹⁹ For this is praiseworthy, if any one, on account of conscience to ward God, endure sorrows, suffering unjustly.

¹⁴ But yet, if you even suffer for righteousness, happy are you. Yet fear not their terror, nor be troubled:

¹⁷ For it is better, if such be the will of God, that you suffer for doing good, than for doing evil.

¹⁴ If you are reproached on account of Christ, happy are you: for the glorious Spirit of God rests upon you. On their part he is reviled, but on your part he is glorified: ¹⁵ for no one of you should suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a busybody in other men's matters. ¹⁶ But if any one suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God on this account.