Christians Who Suffer From Those In Authority Over Them

Peter continues to tell us how we are to live. I have no memory of a teacher teaching these passages.

1 Peter 2 ISV

18You household servants must submit yourselves to your masters out of respect, not only to those who are kind and fair, but also to those who are unjust. 

• 19For it is a fine thing if, when moved by your conscience to please God, you suffer patiently when wronged. 

• 20What good does it do if, when you sin, you patiently receive punishment for it? 

• But if you suffer for doing good and receive it patiently, you have God’s approval. 

• 21This is, in fact, what you were called to do, because:

The Messiahj also suffered for you

and left an example for you

to follow in his steps.

22“He never sinned,

and he never told a lie.”k

23When he was insulted,

he did not retaliate.

When he suffered,

he did not threaten.

It was his habit

to commit the matter to the one who judges fairly.

24“He himself bore our sins”l in his body on the tree,

so that we might die to those sins

and live righteously.

“By his wounds

you have been healed.”m

25You were “like sheep that kept going astray,”n

but now you have returned to the shepherd

and overseer of your souls.