 | William Shakespeare, Sir Frederick Beilby Watson - 1843 - 264 pages
...in princes. PSALM cxviii. God is our hope and strength : a very present help in trouble. PSALM xlvi. It is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. 1 PETER, iii. GOD KNOWN. We have heard Him ourselves, and know that... | |
 | 1846 - 496 pages
...the sufferings of Christ presented as an example for Christians to follow, in 1 Peter iii, 17, 18. " For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing. For Christ also hath suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God." If... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester - 1844 - 478 pages
...same kind as the sufferings of Christ. In the connexion of a passage above quoted, the apostle says, "For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for [or in the cause of] well-doing than for evil-doing. Universalisi. Mr. Murray was deputed by the Whitefield... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - 1844 - 412 pages
...in heaven." Peter also testifies, " and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye," — " for it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for weil doing than for evil doing. For Christ once suffered, the just for the unjust." He was also of... | |
 | Paul V. Harrison, Robert E. Picirilli - 1992 - 384 pages
...you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation fan Christ. 17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. Peter's last point about the church's attitude in facing hostility... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 164 pages
...as ever the Church of Christ remains in this wicked world. He says, in the verse preceding our text: "It is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well-doing, than for evil-doing." Further on, at the beginning of the next chapter, he says: "Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 422 pages
...tread out the baleful fire of anger, And in its ashes plant the tree of peace! FIRST PETER 3:17-20 For 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,... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 pages
...the Book of Common Prayer, and the Epistle for Easter Even seems chosen to revise it, beginning "lt is better (if the will of God be so) that ye suffer for well doing than for evil doing" (1 Pet. 3). The gist of the necessarium Adae peccatum is summed up... | |
 | Rulon T. Burton - 1994 - 1218 pages
...you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. 17. For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. (Peter to the churches in modern Asia Minor, about AD 60) lPet.3:14-17... | |
 | David Daniell - 1995 - 488 pages
...and Rom 16 I TTm 5 J Pa » Gtve » reason of your doctrtne 11,1, 9 d. Ram 5. k Cm 6 h MM 19 Lukt I7f It is better (if the will of God be so) that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. + Forasmuch as Christ hath once suffered for sins, the just for the... | |
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For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing. 
