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1 Petrus 2:20

Sebab dapatkah disebut pujian, jika kamu menderita pukulan karena kamu berbuat dosa? Tetapi jika kamu berbuat baik dan karena itu kamu harus menderita, maka itu adalah kasih karunia pada Allah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Commandments;   Example;   Meekness;   Patience;   Servant;   Thompson Chain Reference - Suffering for Christ's Sake;   Suffering for Righteousness' S;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflicted Saints;   Afflictions Made Beneficial;   Patience;   Servants;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Government;   Mark, gospel of;   Meekness;   Peter, letters of;   Ruler;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Blasphemy;   Demon;   Discipline;   Follow, Follower;   Offerings and Sacrifices;   Suffering;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cheek;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Paul;   Peter, the Epistles of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Affliction;   Black People and Biblical Perspectives;   Grace;   Slave/servant;   1 Peter;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acceptance;   Glory;   Persecution;   Peter, First Epistle of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Acceptance;   Buffet;   Buffeting;   Justice (2);   Perseverance;   Roman Law in the Nt;   Sacrifice (2);   Suffering;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Accept;   Affliction;   Buffet;   Fault;   Grace;   Patience;   Peter, Simon;   Peter, the First Epistle of;   Suffering;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for March 12;   Every Day Light - Devotion for May 12;   Today's Word from Skip Moen - Devotion for August 18;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sebab dapatkah disebut pujian, jika kamu menderita pukulan karena kamu berbuat dosa? Tetapi jika kamu berbuat baik dan karena itu kamu harus menderita, maka itu adalah kasih karunia pada Allah.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Karena apakah kemegahannya, jikalau dengan sabar kamu tahan apabila kamu disiksakan dari sebab berbuat dosa? Tetapi jikalau dengan sabar kamu tahan sengsara dari sebab berbuat baik, maka itulah yang berkenan kepada Allah.

Contextual Overview

13 Submit your selues therfore vnto al maner ordinaunce of ma for the Lordes sake: whether it be vnto the king, as hauyng the preeminence: 14 Other vnto rulers, as vnto them that are sent of hym for the punyshment of euyll doers, but for the laude of them that do well. 15 For so is the wyll of God, that with well doyng, ye may stoppe the mouthes of foolishe and ignoraunt men: 16 As free, and not as hauyng the libertie for a cloke of maliciousnes, but euen as the seruauntes of God. 17 Honour all men. Loue brotherly felowship. Feare God. Honour the kyng. 18 Seruauntes, obey your maisters with all feare, not only yf they be good & curteous, but also though they be frowarde. 19 For it is thanke worthy, yf a man for coscience toward god, endure griefe, and suffer wrong vndeserued. 20 For what prayse is it, yf when ye be buffeted for your faultes, ye take it paciently? But yf when ye do well ye suffer wrong, & take it paciently, then is there thanke with God. 21 For herevnto veryly were ye called, for Christe also suffered for vs, leauyng vs an ensample, that ye should folowe his steppes. 22 Which did no sinne, neyther was there guyle founde in his mouth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For: 1 Peter 3:14, 1 Peter 4:14-16, Matthew 5:47

buffeted: Matthew 26:67, Mark 14:65, 1 Corinthians 4:11

when: 1 Peter 2:19

this: Matthew 5:10-12, Romans 12:1, Romans 12:2, Ephesians 5:10, Philippians 4:18

acceptable: or, thank, 1 Peter 2:19, Luke 6:32

Reciprocal: Genesis 39:14 - he came Deuteronomy 25:2 - General 1 Samuel 25:21 - he hath requited Psalms 89:51 - footsteps Psalms 119:22 - for I have Psalms 119:78 - without Ecclesiastes 7:8 - the patient Matthew 5:39 - whosoever Matthew 5:46 - if Luke 6:22 - when men Luke 23:34 - Father John 18:23 - If Romans 12:12 - patient Romans 14:18 - is 1 Timothy 2:3 - this 2 Timothy 1:9 - called 2 Timothy 3:12 - shall Hebrews 12:28 - we may 1 Peter 3:9 - rendering 1 Peter 4:15 - suffer 3 John 1:6 - do well

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God sayde: It is not good yt the man should be alone, I wyll make hym an helpe lyke vnto hym.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults,.... Which ye have committed, and are guilty of, and are truly such:

ye shall take it patiently? to be silent, and not murmur when beaten, within measure, for real faults, is no great honour, nor does it deserve any praise; it is the least that can be done:

but if, when ye do well; either in their master's service, or rather in the business of religion, and the things of God; as when what they do is according to the will of God, and from love to him, and in faith, and in the name and strength of Christ, and to the glory of God; without all which there is no well doing:

and suffer for it; reproach and persecution, by words or blows, in person or property:

ye take it patiently; without grieving and repining, or answering again, and making any returns:

this is acceptable with God; is agreeably to his will, and grateful in his sight, what he is well pleased with, is reckoned grace with him; and though it is his own grace, and of his own bestowing, he will reward it with glory.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For what glory is it - What honor or credit would it be.

If, when ye be buffeted for your faults - That is, if you are punished when you deserve it. The word “buffet” (κολαφίζω kolaphizō) - means, to strike with the fist; and then to strike in any way; to maltreat, Matthew 26:67; Mar 14:65; 1 Corinthians 4:11; 2 Corinthians 12:7. Perhaps there may be a reference here to the manner in which servants were commonly treated, or the kind of pun ishment to which they were exposed. They would be likely to be struck in sudden anger, either by the hand, or by anything that was accessible. The word rendered “for your faults,” is sinning, (ἁμαρτάνοντες hamartanontes.) That is, “if being guilty of an offence, or having done wrong.” The idea is, that if they were justly punished, and should take it patiently, there would be no credit or honor in it.

Ye shall take it patiently - “If, even then, you evince an uncomplaining spirit, and bear it with the utmost calmness and patience, it would be regarded as comparatively no virtue, and as entitling you to no honor. The feeling of all who saw it would be that you deserved it, and there would be nothing to excite their sympathy or compassion. The patience evinced might indeed be as great as in the other case, but there would be the feeling that you deserved all that you received, and the spirit evinced in that case could not be regarded as entitled to any particular praise. If your masters are inflicting on you only what you deserve, it would be in the highest degree shameful for you to rise up against them, and resist them, for it would be only adding to the wrong which you had already done.” The expression here is, doubtless, to be understood comparatively. The meaning is not that absolutely there would be no more credit due to one who should bear his punishment patiently when he had done wrong, than if he had met it with resistance and complaining; but that there is very little credit in that compared with the patience which an innocent person evinces, who, from regard to the will of God, and by control over all the natural feelings of resentment, meekly endures wrong.

This expresses the common feeling of our nature. We attribute no particular credit to one who submits to a just punishment even with a calm temper. We feel that it would be wrong in the highest degree for him to do otherwise. So it is when calamities are brought on a man on account of his sins. If it is seen to be the fruit of intemperance or crime, we do not feel that there is any great virtue exhibited if he bears it with a calm temper. But if he is overwhelmed with calamity when it seems to have no particular connection with his sins, or to be a punishment for any particular fault; if he suffers at the hand of man, where there is manifest injustice done him, and yet evinces a calm, submissive, and meek temper, we feel that in such cases there is eminent virtue.

This is acceptable with God - Margin, as in 1 Peter 2:19, “thank.” It is that which is agreeable to him, or with which he is pleased.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 20. For what glory is it — It appears from this that the poor Christians, and especially those who had been converted to Christianity while in a state of slavery, were often grievously abused, they were buffeted because they were Christians, and because they would not join with their masters in idolatrous worship.


 
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