1 Peter 3:14 Cross References - Riverside

¹⁴ But if you should suffer for being righteous, you are blessed. Have no fear of them and do not be disturbed;

¹⁰ "Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness! For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹ "Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and say every evil thing against you falsely for my sake! ¹² Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for your reward is great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

¹⁸ and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a witness to them and to the Gentiles. ¹⁹ But when they deliver you up, do not worry how or what you are to speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you are to say. ²⁰ For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaks within you. ²¹ Brother will betray brother to death, and father will betray child, and children will rise up against parents and put them to death. ²² And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. He who endures to the end, that one will be saved.

²⁸ Do not fear before those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

³¹ So do not fear. You are worth more than many sparrows.

³⁹ He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

²⁵ For whoever chooses to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

²⁹ And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for my name's sake will receive manifold more and will inherit life eternal.

³⁵ Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for my sake and the sake of the good news will save it.

²⁹ Jesus said, "I tell you truly there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the good news,

²² "Blessed are you when men hate you and when they shut you out and reproach you and cast out your name as evil because of the Son of Man! ²³ Rejoice on that day and leap for joy. For, indeed, your reward will be great in heaven. Just so their fathers treated the prophets.

⁴ I tell you, my friends, never fear those who kill the body and after that have nothing more that they can do. ⁵ But I will show you whom you should fear. Fear him who, after he has killed, has power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I say, fear him.

¹ "LET not your heart be troubled. Believe in God and believe in me.

²⁷ Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor fearful.

¹⁶ I will show him how much he must suffer for my name."

⁹ The Lord spoke in the night by a vision to Paul, "Do not fear, but speak and be not silent, ¹⁰ for I am with you and no one shall attack and harm you, for I have many people in this city."

¹⁰ Therefore I rejoice in weaknesses, in rough treatment, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

²⁹ because it has been graciously allowed you not only to believe in Christ but also to suffer for his sake,

¹² Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he has been tested he will gain the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

¹⁹ For this is grace if for conscience toward God any one bears pain, suffering unjustly. ²⁰ For what credit is it if when you sin and are struck with the fist you are patient? But if though doing well, you suffer and are patient, that is grace in God's sight.

⁶ as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him Master. You have become her children when you do well and feel no terror.

¹³ But rejoice since to this extent you are sharing the sufferings of Christ, that when his glory is revealed you may rejoice and exult. ¹⁴ If you are reproached for the name of Christ you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. ¹⁵ No one of you must suffer as a murderer or as a thief or as a wrongdoer or as a meddler in other men's affairs. ¹⁶ But if he suffers as a Christian he should not be ashamed, but should glorify God by that name.