Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Wherefore (wste). Picking up the thread of consolation again (Bigg).
Commit their souls (paratiqesqwsan tav yuxav). Present (continuous) middle imperative third plural of paratiqhmi, old word, a banking figure, to deposit, as in I Timothy 1:18; II Timothy 2:2, the word used by Jesus as he died (Luke 23:46).
In well-doing (en agaqopoiiai). Late and rare word, only here in N.T., from agaqopoiew (I Peter 2:15, I Peter 2:20).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Peter 4:19:
Acts 20:32
1 Corinthians 12:4
1 John 5:14
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