| William Evans - 1837 - 508 pages
...concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing had happened to you ; for it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evildoing ; and rejoice, inasmuch as ye are made partakers of Christ's sufferings. Wherefore let them that suffer... | |
| William Thistlethwaite - 1837 - 982 pages
...let it not prevent you from serving him. " If we suffer" for him, " we shall also reign with him." " It is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well-doing, than for evil-doing." " If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye ; for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth... | |
| Henry Stebbing - 1838 - 776 pages
...about to l»e celebrated, in which they had an immediate interest. The Epistle. 1 St. Pet. iii. 17. T is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well-doing, than for evil-doing. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God,... | |
| John Pring - 1838 - 588 pages
...though neither our suffering, nor our consequent blessing, may come up to the measure of theirs. " For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing (says St. Peter). For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the... | |
| Francis Gastrell - 1838 - 330 pages
...thing worthy of death, let him not refuse to die. 6 If ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye. For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. This is thank-worthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief,... | |
| Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...of you as of evil doers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing," A man who walked so much from his youth, according to the letter and spirit of the word, deserves to... | |
| 1839 - 300 pages
...miirits who died and was buried, and rose again for us, thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. EPISTLE. It is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well-doing, than for evil-doing. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God,... | |
| William Raymond Weeks - 1839 - 178 pages
...God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother." There it is will of command. I Peter 3. 17. "It is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing." Here it is will of decree; for God has not commanded that men should... | |
| 1839 - 966 pages
...patient endurance, by appeal to the same consideration of Christ's disinterested self-sacrifice. " It is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing than for evil doing : for Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust,... | |
| John Foxe - 1839 - 806 pages
...name of Christ, happy are ye ; for the Spirit of glory, and the Spirit of God resteth upon you."' " It is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for weU doing, than for evil doing."' So 1 Pet. iv. " See that none of you suffer as a murderer, or as... | |
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