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12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
aAnd His ears are open to their prayers;
But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”  

Suffering for Right and Wrong

13 aAnd who is he who will harm you if you become followers of what is good?  
14 aBut even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. b“And do not be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.”  
15 But1 sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always abe ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the bhope that is in you, with meekness and fear;  
16 ahaving a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.  
17 For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

Christ’s Suffering and Ours

18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring1 us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,  
19 by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,
20 who formerly were disobedient,1 when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.  
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1 Peter 3:14

But and if ye should suffer (all ei kai pasxoite). "But if ye should also (or even) suffer." Condition of the fourth class with ei and the optative (undetermined with less likelihood), a rare condition in the vernacular Koin‚, since the optative was a dying mode. If matters, in spite of the prophetic note of victory in verse I Peter 3:13, should come to actual suffering "for righteousness' sake" (dia dikaiosunhn) as in Matthew 5:10 (eneken, not dia), then "blessed" (makarioi, the very word of Jesus there which see, a word meaning "happy," not euloghtoi) "are ye" (not in the Greek). If the conclusion were expressed regularly, it would be eihte an (ye would be), not este (ye are). It is interesting to note the third-class condition in verse I Peter 3:13 just before the fourth-class one in verse I Peter 3:14.

Fear not their fear (ton fobon autwn mh fobhqhte). Prohibition with mh and the first aorist (ingressive) passive subjunctive of fobeomai, to fear, and the cognate accusative fobon (fear, terror). "Do not fear their threats" (Bigg). Quotation from Isaiah 8:12 f.

Neither be troubled (mhde taracqhte). Prohibition with mhde and the first aorist (ingressive) subjunctive of tarassw, to disturb (Matthew 2:6; John 12:27). Part of the same quotation. Cf. I Peter 3:6.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Peter 3:14:

1 Peter 3:14
1 Peter 4:18

 

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