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9 aBe hospitable to one another bwithout grumbling.  
10 aAs each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, bas good stewards of cthe manifold grace of God.  
11 aIf anyone speaks, let him speak as the1 oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that bin all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the2 dominion forever and ever. Amen.  

Suffering for God’s Glory

12 Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you;
13 but rejoice ato the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that bwhen His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.  
14 If you are1 reproached for the name of Christ, ablessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.2 On their part He is blasphemed, bbut on your part He is glorified.  
15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a1 busybody in other people’s matters.  
16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this1 matter.  
17 For the time has come afor judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, bwhat will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?  
18 Now
a“If the righteous one is scarcely saved,
Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?”  
19 Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God acommit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator. 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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1 Peter 4:11

If any man speak - In order to explain or enforce God' s word, and edify his neighbor, let him do it as those did to whom the living oracles were committed: they spoke as they were inspired by the Holy Ghost. Those, therefore, at Pontus, etc., who undertook to teach others, should speak by the same influence; or, if not under this immediate influence, should speak as or according to the oracles already delivered, grounding all their exhortations and doctrines on some portion of that revelation already given. This command is sent to every man upon earth in holy orders, in pretended holy orders, or pretending to holy orders. Their teaching should be what the oracles of God, the Holy Scriptures, teach and authenticate.

Of the ability which God giveth - Perhaps the ministering here may refer to the care of the poor, and the ability is the quantum of means which God may have placed in their hands; and they are to minister this as coming immediately from God, and lead the minds of the poor to consider him as their benefactor, that he in all things may be glorified through Christ Jesus. This is implied in the essence of any charitable act: the actor is not the author, God is the author; and the poor man should be taught to consider him as his immediate benefactor. Those who give any thing as from themselves, rob God; for to him the praise for all good, and the dominion over all men and things, belong for ever and ever.




Other Adam Clarke entries containing 1 Peter 4:11:

Acts 7:38
Hebrews 5:12

 

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