1 Peter 4:15

World English Bible (2000)

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men's matters.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Thess 4:11 : 11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;
  • 2 Thess 3:11 : 11 For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.
  • 1 Tim 5:13 : 13 Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.
  • 2 Tim 2:9 : 9 in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God's word isn't chained.
  • 1 Pet 2:19-20 : 19 For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God. 20 For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.
  • 1 Pet 3:17 : 17 For it is better, if it is God's will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
  • Matt 5:11 : 11 "Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

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    13Now who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators of that which is good?

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    1Forasmuch then as 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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    12Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

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    16Then don't let your good be slandered,

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    5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;

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    16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

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    13Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

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    19For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.

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