20For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. …
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-25)The general rule of a Christian conversation is this, it must be honest, which it cannot be if there be not a conscientious discharge of all relative duties. The apostle here particularly treats of these distinctly. I. The case of subjects. Christians were not only reputed innovators in religion, but disturbers of the state; it was highly necessary, therefore, that the apostle should settle the ru…
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