1 PETER 3:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.”
For it is better, if it is God's will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil — the assertion establishes a hierarchy of suffering: suffering for good deeds is preferable to suffering for misdeeds. The qualification 'if it is God's will' (ean to thelēma theou thelē) establishes that even unjust persecution is within God's sovereign ordering.
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