1 PETER 4:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.”
However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear this name — the designation as 'Christian' (Christianos, only here in 1 Peter) establishes an identity constituted by Christ relationship. The exhortation not to be 'ashamed' (aischumē) but to 'glorify God' (doxazō) in bearing this name suggests that identifying openly with Christ, even in persecution, honors God.
Church Fathers on 1 Peter 4:16
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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