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A Secure Deposit
Multiple commentators highlight that the word 'commit' is a banking term for depositing something valuable for safekeeping. This is the same concept Jesus used on the cross. When you suffer, you can entrust your very soul to God as a secure deposit, confident that He will faithfully guard what has been given to Him.
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1 Peter
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Peter 4:19
18th Century
Theologian
Wherefore, let them that suffer according to the will of God. That is, who endure the kind of sufferings that He, by His providence, will …
AT Robertson
On 1 Peter 4:19
Wherefore (ωστε). Picking up the thread of consolation again (Bigg).
Commit their souls (παρατιθεσθωσαν τα…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Peter 4:19
19th Century
Bishop
Therefore.—Because the beginning of the judgment—the judgment of the Christians—is so light in comparison with the fearful end whe…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Peter 4:19
19th Century
Preacher
The main point of the chapter is that we should prefer any suffering of the flesh to the sin of the spirit; and that we should be prepared to endur…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Peter 4:19
The conclusion to this section is that the Christians who are suffering according to the divine will (1:6; 3:17) are to “commit [GK 4192] themselve…
John Calvin
On 1 Peter 4:19
16th Century
Theologian
Wherefore let them that suffer. He draws this conclusion: persecutions should be endured submissively, because in persecution, the conditi…
John Gill
On 1 Peter 4:19
17th Century
Pastor
Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of
God
This is the conclusion ma…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Peter 4:12–19
17th Century
Minister
Through patience and fortitude in suffering, dependence on God's promises, and adherence to the word the Holy Spirit has revealed, the Holy Spirit …