Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Peter 4:16
Let him glorify God — Who giveth him the honour so to suffer, and so great a reward for suffering.
Let him glorify God — Who giveth him the honour so to suffer, and so great a reward for suffering.
Verse 16. _YET IF - AS A CHRISTIAN_] If he be persecuted because he has embraced the _Christian_ faith, let him not be _ashamed_, but let him rather glorify God on this very account. Christ suffered b...
YET IF ANY MAN SUFFER AS A CHRISTIAN - Because he is a Christian; if he is persecuted on account of his religion. This was often done, and they had reason to expect that it might occur in their own ca...
IV. THE COMFORT IN THE MIDST OF TRIALS AND SUFFERING CHAPTER 3:10-4:19 _ 1. The comfort in suffering (1 Peter 3:10)_ 2. Few saved as illustrated by Noah's preaching (1 Peter 3:18) 3. The new life i...
The section repeats ideas that have already appeared (1 Peter 2:18; 1 Peter 3:13), only they are emphasized by the imminence (1 Peter 4:17) of severe trial....
THE OBLIGATION OF THE CHRISTIAN (1 Peter 4:1-5)...
If you are reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed because the presence of the glory and the Spirit of God rest upon you. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-do...
CHRISTIAN. See Acts 11:26. BEHALF. respect, literally part, but the texts read "name"....
_Yet if any man suffer as a Christian_ The occurrence of a name which has played so prominent a part in the history of mankind requires a few words of notice. It did not originate with the followers o...
ΧΡΙΣΤΙΑΝΌΣ. א reads Χρηστιανός here and in the two passages of Acts where the word occurs, while B reads Χρειστιανός. These variations may be merely errors of sound on the part of copyists, but Blass...
ΑΊΣΧΥΝΈΣΘΩ _praes. imper. pass. от_ ΑΊΣΧΎΝΩ (G153) позорить; _pass._ быть опозоренным. ΔΟΞΑΖΈΤΩ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΔΟΞΆΖΩ (G1392) славить....
DISCOURSE: 2408 PERSECUTION FOR CHRIST’S SAKE 1 Peter 4:12. Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice, i...
LET HIM NOT BE ASHAMED;— There is no shame in suffering, unless it be for some crime: to be a _Christian,_ and to suffer for being so, is an honour. Grotius's remark on the words is this: "If a man wa...
1 PETER 4:14-16 IF YE ARE REPROACHED FOR THE NAME OF CHRIST, BLESSED ARE YE; BECAUSE THE SPIRIT OF GLORY AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD RESTETH UPON YOU. FOR LET NONE OF YOU SUFFER AS A MURDERER, OR A THIEF, O...
Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. A CHRISTIAN - the name given first at Antioch (Acts 11:26; Acts 26:27); the only three places w...
VERSE 16. YET IF ANY MAN SUFFER AS A CHRISTIAN. Here the difference is apparent. One who suffers for the cause of Christ should not be ashamed of his suffering, however trying or ignominious it may b...
19 Who are these imprisoned spirits ? Are they not the same that Peter mentions in his second epistle (1Pe_2:4) who were thrust down to the gloomy caverns of Tartarus, and the messengers of Jude's epi...
THE SECURITY OF THE FAITHFUL IN THE APPROACHING JUDGMENT _C_ (ii). 1 Peter 4:1. 'This is your faith: live then in accordance with it. Arm yourselves against your troubles by resolving to be like Chris...
CHRISTIAN] a name which the heathen first gave the disciples: see Acts 11:26; Acts 26:28. ON THIS BEHALF] RV 'in this name' 17. Cp. Ezekiel 9:6.....
MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD 1 PETER _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 4 LIVING FOR GOD v1 Christ suffered while he was in his human body. Each one of you Christians must be ready to suffer as he did. If you suf...
Not everyone will suffer as a Christian. If you do, that is no reason to be ashamed. Philippians 2:9-11 says that, in the end, everyone will have to agree that Jesus Christ is *Lord. Christians can th...
YET IF ANY MAN SUFFER AS A CHRISTIAN. — St. Peter purposely uses the name which was a name of derision among the heathens. It is not, as yet, one by which the believers would usually describe _themsel...
(12-19) EXHORTATION TO COURAGE AND STEADFASTNESS IN PERSECUTION. — All ought to be prepared for persecution. It is a blessed and glorious thing to have to bear it. A criminal’s death and a Christian m...
CHAPTER 15 THE RIGHTEOUS HAVE JUDGMENT HERE 1 Peter 4:15 THE Apostle now goes one step farther in his exhortations. The brethren are suffering for Christ's cause, and may draw comfort from Christ's...
εἰδὲ ὡς χριστιανὸς, _if one suffers as a follower of Christ, in the name of Christ_ (14). See on Acts 9:26 and Introduction. μὴ αἰσχυνέσθω echoes the saying, _Whosoever shall be ashamed of me and my w...
SUFFERING AS A CHRISTIAN 1 Peter 4:12 We are called upon to share our Savior's sufferings-not those of His substitution, but His daily self-denial, the hatred of men, the anguish of His soul over the...
The whole force of the argument which the apostle has used in speaking thus of the Christ was to show these saints how through suffering Christ reached a triumph, and to call them to arm themselves wi...
GLORIFYING GOD IN SUFFERING Trials are a part of the Christian's life and should not surprise him (John 15:18-20; 2 Timothy 3:12). Woods says of the "fiery trial," "the figure here used is that of gol...
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: (13) But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; tha...
The epistles of Peter are addressed to the elect Jews of his day, believing of course on the Lord Jesus, and scattered throughout a considerable portion of Asia Minor. The apostle takes particular car...
_THE TWOFOLD NATURE OF SUFFERING_ ‘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. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him n...
16_Yet if any man suffer as a Christian _After having forbidden the Christians to do any hurt or harm, lest for their evil deeds, like the unbelieving, they should become hateful to the world, he now...
From the beginning of this Chapter to the end of Verse, the apostle continues to speak of the general principles of God's government, exhorting, the Christian to act on the principles of Christ Him el...
YET IF ANY MAN SUFFER AS A CHRISTIAN,.... Because he is one, and professes himself to be one. This name was first given to the disciples at Antioch, either by themselves, or by the Gentiles; however,...
Yet if _any man suffer_ as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. Ver. 16. _Suffer as a Christian_] Under the Emperor Antoninus the philosopher, there happened a...
_If ye be reproached for Christ_ Reproaches and cruel mockings were always one part of their sufferings, and to an ingenuous mind, reproach is often worse than the spoiling of goods, or even than bodi...
ON THIS BEHALF; in this respect; for this evidence, namely, of likeness to Christ, and means of preparation for heaven. Acts 5:41 _ PHILIPPIANS 3:10_ _; Philippians 1:24_...
Suffering as Christians:...
YET IF ANY MAN SUFFER AS A CHRISTIAN, LET HIM NOT BE ASHAMED; BUT LET HIM GLORIFY GOD ON THIS BEHALF....
Christ's suffering in the flesh is set before us then as an example; not His sufferings for us in atonement, which were His alone, but His sufferings in a contrary world, in precious, lowly grace. We...
_ 1 Peter 4:16 ‘but if anyone suffers as. Christian, let him not feel ashamed, but in that name let him glorify God.'_ ‘SUFFERS AS. CHRISTIAN' -‘because he is. Christian' (Wey). 1. The word ‘Christian...
12-19 By patience and fortitude in suffering, by dependence on the promises of God, and keeping to the word the Holy Spirit hath revealed, the Holy Spirit is glorified; but by the contempt and reproa...
YET IF ANY MAN SUFFER AS A CHRISTIAN; if his Christianity be his only crime, and the cause of his sufferings. LET HIM NOT BE ASHAMED: see 2 TIMOTHY 2:12. BUT LET HIM GLORIFY GOD ON THIS BEHALF; i.e. o...
Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians Let us then be imitators of His patience; and if we suffer[51]...
1 Peter 4:16 Yet G1161 if G1487 as G5613 Christian G5546 let G153 not G3361 ashamed G153 (G5744) but...
PERSECUTION IS A NECESSARY RESULT OF THEIR BEING UNITED WITH CHRIST IN HIS SUFFERINGS FOR IT IS THE FIRST STAGE IN THE JUDGMENT THAT IS COMING ON ALL (1 PETER 4:12). Peter still has his eye firmly fix...
APPLICATION OF THE PREVIOUS THEME, AND REMINDER OF THE COMING JUDGMENT (1 PETER 4:1). Having portrayed the great and all encompassing victory of Jesus Christ through suffering, Peter now applies the i...
‘For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or as a meddler in other men's matters, but if a man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in th...
1 Peter 4:16. BUT IF (ANY MAN SUFFERS) AS A CHRISTIAN; that is, in the character of a Christian, or on account of his being a Christian. The verse is of great interest as one of three passages (Acts 1...
In this second series of exhortations to Christian duty as that is affected by the prospect of the end, Peter takes up again the case of persecution which he has touched on more than once already. The...
BUT IF AS A CHRISTIAN (ε δε ως Χριστιανος). Supply the verb πασχε (condition of first class, "if one suffer as a Christian"). This word occurs only three times in the N.T. (Acts 11:26; Acts 26:28; 1...
1 Peter 4:1. _Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind:_ Accepting this great truth, that it is well that the flesh should die that the s...
CONTENTS: Exhortations to mortification of sin and living unto God. Suffering with Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Christ having suffered so much for us, should cause us to fortify ourse...
1 Peter 4:3. _The will of the gentiles._ Augustine in his city of God, should be read to see the excess and abominable idolatries of the gentiles. See the notes on Ephesians 5:12; Romans 1....
BUT IF YOU SUFFER. The name _Christian_ was widely used by this time (Acts 11:26). Many good people suffered only because they were Christians! BUT THANK GOD. "Praise God for his finished work in Chri...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ 1 Peter 4:12. STRANGE.—Do not be surprised, as if something unreasonable had happened. No form of suffering can come to Christians as accident. God, with a purpose of g...
EXPOSITIONS 1 PETER 4:1 FORASMUCH THEN AS CHRIST HATH SUFFERED FOR US IN THE FLESH. St. Peter returns, after the digression of 1 Peter 3:19, to the great subject of Christ's example. The words "for...
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us (1 Peter 4:1) That is, has gone to the cross. in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that has suffered (1 Peter 4:1) Or come...
1 Peter 3:17; 1 Peter 3:18; 1 Peter 4:19; 2 Timothy 1:12; Acts 11:26;...
A Christian. Only three times in the New Testament, and never as a name used by Christians themselves, but as a nickname or a term of reproach. See on Acts 11:26. Hence Peter's idea is, if any man suf...
SUNSHINE AND SHADOWS 1 Peter 4:12 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are several things about suffering for Christ which need to be emphasized. 1. CHRISTIANS ARE NOT EXEMPT FROM SUFFERING. Asaph said, "I was...