1 Peter 2:20 “How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you end…”

1 Peter 2:20

How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For 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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

For what glory is it, if, when ye sin, and are buffeted for it, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye shall take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

Geneva Bible 1599

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.

Darby Translation

For what glory [is it], if sinning and being buffeted ye shall bear [it]? but if, doing good and suffering, ye shall bear [it], this is acceptable with God.

Young's Literal Translation

for what renown [is it], if sinning and being buffeted, ye do endure [it]? but if, doing good and suffering [for it], ye do endure, this [is] gracious with God,

Bible in Basic English

What credit is it if, when you have done evil, you take your punishment quietly? but if you are given punishment for doing right, and take it quietly, this is pleasing to God.

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Cross references

“For”

1 Peter 3:14 1 Peter 4:14–16 Matthew 5:47

1 Peter 3:14 · BSB

But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear what they fear; do not be shaken.”

1 Peter 4:14–16 · BSB

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

Matthew 5:47 · BSB

And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even Gentiles do the same?

“buffeted”

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

Matthew 26:67 · BSB

Then they spit in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him

Mark 14:65 · BSB

Then some of them began to spit on Him. They blindfolded Him, struck Him with their fists, and said to Him, “Prophesy!” And the officers received Him with slaps in His face.

1 Corinthians 4:11 · BSB

To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.

“when”

1 Peter 2:19

1 Peter 2:19 · BSB

For if anyone endures the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God, this is to be commended.

“this”

Matthew 5:10–12 Ephesians 5:10 Romans 12:1 Romans 12:2 Philippians 4:18

Matthew 5:10–12 · BSB

Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Ephesians 5:10 · BSB

Test and prove what pleases the Lord.

Romans 12:1 · BSB

Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

Romans 12:2 · BSB

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Philippians 4:18 · BSB

I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.

“acceptable”

Luke 6:32

Luke 6:32 · BSB

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.

Also

1 Peter 3:17

1 Peter 3:17 · BSB

For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

19For if anyone endures the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God, this is to be commended.

21For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:

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