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17 Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear aGod. Honor the king.  

Submission to Masters

18 aServants, be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh.  
19 For this is acommendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully.  
20 For awhat credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God.  
21 For ato this you were called, because Christ also suffered for1 us, bleaving us an example, that you should follow His steps: 
22 “Who acommitted no sin,
Nor was deceit found in His mouth”;  
23 awho, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but bcommitted Himself to Him who judges righteously;  
24 awho Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, bthat we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—cby whose stripes you were healed.  
25 For ayou were like sheep going astray, but have now returned bto the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. 
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1 Peter 2:19

For this is acceptable (touto gar xariv). "For this thing (neuter singular touto, obedience to crooked masters) is grace" (xariv is feminine, here "thanks" as in Romans 7:25). "Acceptable" calls for euprosdekton (I Peter 2:5), which is not the text here.

If a man endureth griefs (ei uoferei tiv lupav). Condition of first class with ei and present active indicative of upoferw, old verb, to bear up under, in N.T. only here, I Corinthians 10:13; II Timothy 3:11. Note plural of luph (grief).

For conscience toward God (dia suneidhsin qeou). Suffering is not a blessing in and of itself, but, if one's duty to God is involved (Acts 4:20), then one can meet it with gladness of heart. Qeou (God) is objective genitive. For suneidhsiv (conscience) see on Acts 23:1; I Corinthians 8:7. It occurs again in I Peter 3:16.

Suffering wrongfully (pasxwn adikwv). Present active participle of pasxw and the common adverb adikwv, unjustly, here alone in N.T. This is the whole point, made clear already by Jesus in Matthew 5:10-12, where Jesus has also "falsely" (yeudomenoi). See also Luke 6:32-34.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Peter 2:19:

Acts 23:1
1 Peter 2:20
1 Peter 3:18

 

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