the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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1 Peter 3:17
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For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
Think about it, if you have to suffer, do it for the right reasons, not the wrong ones.
Because if it is God's purpose for you to undergo pain, it is better to do so for well-doing than for evil-doing.
For [it is] better, if the will of God should will it, to suffer [as] well-doers than [as] evildoers;
For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.
For it is better that you should suffer for doing right, if such be God's will, than for doing evil;
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that yee suffer for well doing, then for euill doing.
For it is better, if the will of God wills it , to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
For it is better (yf the wyll of God be so) that ye suffre for well doynge, the for euell doynge.
For it is better that you suffer [unjustly] for doing what is right, if that should be God's will, than [to suffer justly] for doing wrong.
For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.
For it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be God's will, than for doing wrong.
It is better (yf the wyll of God be so) that ye suffre for well doynge then for evyll doynge.
For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that you suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.
For [it is] better, if the will of God is so, that ye suffer for well-doing, than for evil-doing.
for [it is] better doing good, if the will of God will it, to suffer, than doing evil;
It is better to suffer for doing good than for doing wrong if that is what God wants.
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.
For it is better, if it is God's will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
You are better off to obey God and suffer for doing right than to suffer for doing wrong.
For if God has in fact willed that you should suffer, it is better that you suffer for doing what is good than for doing what is evil.
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.
For it is better (if the will of God be so) that ye suffer for well doing, then for euil doing.
For it is better, if it is the will of God, that you suffer for good deeds, rather than for evil doing.
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.
For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.
After all, if it is the will of God, it is better to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong.
For it helpeth you (if) while doing goodly works you have to sustain evil, if so it be the will of Aloha, and not while working evils.
For it is profitable to you, that ye suffer evil while ye do good deeds, if this should be the pleasure of God; and not, while ye do evil deeds.
For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
Remember, it is better to suffer for doing good, if that is what God wants, than to suffer for doing wrong!
If God wants you to suffer, it is better to suffer for doing what is right than for doing what is wrong.
For it is better, if the will of God should so will, that ye suffer for well–doing than for evil–doing.
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God's will, than to suffer for doing evil.
For it is, better, as well-doers, if it should please the pleasure of God, to be suffering, than, as evil-doers:
For it is better doing well (if such be the will of God) to suffer than doing ill.
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil.
For it is better, yf the wyll of God be so, that ye suffer for wel doyng, then for euyll doyng.
It is better to suffer for doing good than for doing wrong. Yes, it is better if that is what God wants.
For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if this should be God's will, than for doing evil.
For it is betere that ye do wel, and suffre, if the wille of God wole, than doynge yuele.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
if: 1 Peter 4:19, Matthew 26:39, Matthew 26:42, Acts 21:14
suffer: 1 Peter 3:14
Reciprocal: Genesis 39:21 - the Lord Genesis 40:15 - done 1 Samuel 21:5 - the vessels 1 Samuel 22:15 - Did I then 1 Samuel 25:21 - he hath requited Job 36:21 - this Psalms 38:20 - because Psalms 119:22 - for I have Mark 15:31 - He John 13:15 - given Romans 3:8 - we be Galatians 6:9 - well 1 Thessalonians 4:12 - ye may walk 1 Peter 4:16 - as
Cross-References
friend, how came you in hither, without a wedding garment? and he was speechless.
to this he will reply, I declare unto you, your not doing this for one of the least of these, is the same thing as not doing it for me.
wicked slave, said he, from your own mouth will I convict thee. "you knew I was a hard master, exacting what I never gave, and reaping where I never sowed:
these things I have appriz'd you of, that ye might repose your confidence in me. the world shall give you trouble: but take courage, I have overcome the world.
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law: that every one may be silenc'd, and all the world plead guilty before God.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For it is better, if the will of God be so,.... For all things are ordered by the will of God, even all the sufferings and afflictions of the saints; and which is a reason why they ought to be patiently submitted to, and bore: and "better" it is, more honourable and profitable,
that ye suffer for well doing; for believing in Christ, professing him and his Gospel, giving a free and open reason for so doing, and for exercising a good conscience, and living godly in Christ Jesus:
than for evil doing; as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or a busy body in other men's matters, 1 Peter 4:15.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For it is better, if the will of God be so - That is, if God sees it to be necessary for your good that you should suffer, it is better that you should suffer for doing well than for crime. God often sees it to be necessary that his people should suffer. There are effects to be accomplished by affliction which can be secured in no other way; and some of the happiest results on the soul of a Christian, some of the brightest traits of character, are the effect of trials. But it should be our care that our sufferings should not be brought upon us for our own crimes or follies. No man can promote his own highest good by doing wrong, and then enduring the penalty which his sin incurs; and no one should do wrong with any expectation that it may be overruled for his own good. If we are to suffer, let it be by the direct hand of God, and not by any fault of our own. If we suffer then, we shall have the testimony of our own conscience in our favor, and the feeling that we may go to God for support. If we suffer for our faults, in addition to the outward pain of body, we shall endure the severest pangs which man can suffer - those which the guilty mind inflicts on itself.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 17. For it is better — See on 1 Peter 2:19; 1 Peter 2:20.
