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1 Peter 2:19-25 (ESV)

This is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

1 posted on 05/06/2017 8:22:48 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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2 posted on 05/06/2017 8:24:18 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Lutheran pastor, LCMS)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Sometimes the just/unjust suffering situations are mixed. You did something that wasn’t totally right, and yet the blowback is coming on you many times worse than it would on the usual person in that situation. Trumped up accusations, etc. This is a sign of the devil in it.


3 posted on 05/06/2017 8:33:19 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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