1 Peter 4:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a meddler in other people's matters.

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  • 1 Thess 4:11 : 11 And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
  • 2 Thess 3:11 : 11 For we hear that there are some who walk among you disorderly, not working at all, but being busybodies.
  • 1 Tim 5:13 : 13 And besides, they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but also gossipers and busybodies, speaking things they ought not.
  • 2 Tim 2:9 : 9 For which I suffer trouble as an evildoer, even to the point of chains; but the word of God is not chained.
  • 1 Pet 2:19-20 : 19 For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully. 20 For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer for it, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God.
  • 1 Pet 3:17 : 17 For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
  • Matt 5:11 : 11 Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

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    16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

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    13 But you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.

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    16 Having a good conscience, so that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.

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    4 Wherein they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

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    1 Since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind: for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;

  • 1 Pet 4:12-14
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    12 Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to test you, as though some strange thing happened to you:

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    9 Not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

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    16 Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil.

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    5 Not in passionate lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God:

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    15 For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

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    19 For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully.

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    19 Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust the keeping of their souls to him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.