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For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
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Commentators emphasize that enduring hardship is only pleasing to God when the motive is right. This 'conscience toward God' means your endurance is not born from stoicism or helplessness, but from a conscious awareness of God's presence and a desire to honor Him above all else, even when treated unfairly.
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1 Peter
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For this is thank-worthy. Margin: thank. Greek: 'This is grace' (charis). Doddridge renders the expression, "This is gra…
For this is acceptable (τουτο γαρ χαρις). "For this thing (neuter singular τουτο, obedience to crooked masters) is grace" (χαρις i…
19th Century
Anglican
For this is thankworthy.—"This," namely, what precedes, which is further explained in what follows. Quite literally it is, for…
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Baptist
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is thankworthy, if a man…
Peter motivates this latter clause. “For it,” he writes, “is commendable”—i.e., a “grace” (GK 5921). It is an attractive quality in the sight of Go…
16th Century
Protestant
For this is thankworthy. The word 'grace' or 'favor' has the meaning of praise. For he means that no grace or praise will be found before …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For this is thankworthy Or "grace"; this is a fruit and effect of grace, an instance of it, in which it shows itself…
Servants in those days were generally slaves and had heathen masters, who often treated them cruelly; yet the apostle directs them to be subject to…
