Suffering for Doing Good!

Suffering For Doing Good

 

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...

Philippians 3:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

1 Peter 3:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.

1 Peter 3:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,

Isaiah 8:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

But the Lord of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

1 Peter 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.

1 Peter 3:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good?

1 Peter 3:13-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good? But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.

Matthew 5:10-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

1 Peter 4:14-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.

1 Peter 3:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.

1 Peter 3:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.

1 Peter 2:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

1 Peter 2:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

1 Peter 1:1-25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ...

Titus 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

2 Timothy 4:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them!

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.