1 Peter 2:19 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹⁹ For God approves a man if from a sense of duty he endures suffering unjustly inflicted—

¹⁰ "Blessed are those who have endured persecution for their uprightness, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them! ¹¹ "Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and falsely say everything bad of you, on my account. ¹² Be glad and exult over it, for you will be richly rewarded in heaven, for that is the way they persecuted the prophets who went before you!

³² If you love only those who love you, what merit is there in that? For even godless people love those who love them.

²¹ But they will do all this to you on my account, because they do not understand him who sent me.

²³ When he reached there and saw the favor God had shown them, he was delighted, and encouraged them all to be resolute and steadfast in their devotion to the Lord,

⁵ You must obey them, therefore, not only to escape God's wrath, but as a matter of principle,

¹⁰ But by God's favor I have become what I am, and the favor he showed me has not gone for nothing, but I have worked harder than any of them, although it was not really I but the favor God showed me.

¹² For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.

¹ I must tell you, brothers, how the favor of God has been shown in the churches of Macedonia,

¹² This is why I am suffering as I am, but I am not ashamed of it, for I know whom I have trusted and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have intrusted to him for that Day.

²⁰ for what credit is there in your enduring being beaten for doing wrong? But if you endure suffering for doing what is right, you have God's approval.

¹⁴ Even if you should suffer for uprightness, you are blessed. But do not be afraid of them, nor be troubled, ¹⁵ but reverence Christ in your hearts as Lord, and always be ready to make your defense to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that you have. But do so gently and respectfully, ¹⁶ and keep your conscience clear, so that those who abuse your upright Christian conduct may be made ashamed of their slanders. ¹⁷ For it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be God's will, than for doing wrong.