1 Peter 2:20 Cross References - Goodspeed

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.

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!

⁴⁷ And if you are polite to your brothers and no one else, what is there remarkable in that? Do not the very heathen do that?

⁶⁷ Then they spat in his face and struck him, and others slapped him,

⁶⁵ And some started to spit at him and to blindfold him and strike him, and say to him, "Now show that you are a prophet!" And the attendants slapped him as they took charge of him.

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

¹ I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship. ² You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is—what is good, pleasing, and perfect.

¹¹ To this day we have gone hungry, thirsty, and ill-clad; we have had rough usage, we have had no home,

¹⁰ you must make sure what pleases the Lord.

¹⁸ You have paid me in full, and more too. I am fully supplied with what I have received from you through Epaphroditus. It is like fragrant incense, just such a sacrifice as God welcomes and approves.

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

¹⁴ Even if you should suffer for uprightness, you are blessed. But do not be afraid of them, nor be troubled,

¹⁷ For it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be God's will, than for doing wrong.

¹⁴ If you are being abused for the sake of Christ, you are blessed, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you. ¹⁵ For no one of you must suffer as a murderer or thief or criminal or revolutionist, ¹⁶ but if a man suffers for being a Christian, he must not be ashamed of it, but must do honor to God through that name.