Verse 20

For what praise is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faultes, yee take it paciently? but and if when ye doe well, ye suffer wrong and take it paciently, this is acceptable to God.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Pet 2:19 : 19 For this is thanke worthie, if a man for conscience toward God endure griefe, suffering wrongfully.
  • Matt 26:67 : 67 Then spet they in his face, and buffeted him, and other smote him with roddes,
  • 1 Pet 3:17 : 17 For it is better (if the will of God be so) that ye suffer for well doing, then for euil doing.
  • 1 Pet 4:14-16 : 14 If yee be railed vpon for the Name of Christ, blessed are ye: for the spirit of glory, and of God resteth vpon you: which on their part is euill spoken of: but on your part is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murtherer, or as a thiefe, or an euil doer, or as a busibodie in other mens matters. 16 But if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not bee ashamed: but let him glorifie God in this behalfe.
  • Mark 14:65 : 65 And some began to spit at him, and to couer his face, and to beate him with fists, and to say vnto him, Prophesie; the sergeants smote him with their roddes.
  • Luke 6:32 : 32 For if yee loue them which loue you, what thanke shall ye haue? for euen the sinners loue those that loue them.
  • Rom 12:1-2 : 1 I Beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that yee giue vp your bodies a liuing sacrifice, holy, acceptable vnto God, which is your reasonable seruing of God. 2 And fashion not your selues like vnto this worlde, but bee yee changed by the renewing of your minde, that ye may prooue what that good, and acceptable and perfect will of God is.
  • 1 Cor 4:11 : 11 Vnto this houre we both hunger, & thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwelling place,
  • Eph 5:10 : 10 Approuing that which is pleasing to the Lorde.
  • Phil 4:18 : 18 Now I haue receiued all, and haue plentie: I was euen filled, after that I had receiued of Epaphroditus that which came from you, an odour that smelleth sweete, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasant to God.
  • 1 Pet 3:14 : 14 Notwithstanding blessed are ye, if ye suffer for righteousnes sake. Yea, feare not their feare, neither be troubled.
  • Matt 5:10-12 : 10 Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousnes sake: for theirs is the kingdome of heauen. 11 Blessed shall ye be when men reuile you, and persecute you, & say all maner of euill against you for my sake, falsely. 12 Reioyce and be glad, for great is your reward in heauen: for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you.
  • Matt 5:47 : 47 And if ye be friendly to your brethren onely, what singular thing doe ye? doe not euen the Publicanes likewise?