1 PETER 4:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.”
If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler — the sharp distinction between legitimate suffering (for faith) and deserved suffering (for crime) establishes that believers' persecution should not result from criminal behavior. The term 'meddler' (allotrioepiskopos, literally 'overseer of others' affairs') suggests busybody interference in others' business.
Church Fathers on 1 Peter 4:15
Who, now, should know better the marrow of the Scriptures than the school of Christ itself?— the persons whom the Lord both chose for Himself as scholars, certainly to be fully instructed in all points, and appointed to us for masters to instruct us in all points. To whom would He have rather made known the veiled import of His own language, than to him to whom He disclosed the likeness of His own glory— to Peter, John, and James, and afterwards to Paul, to whom He granted…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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