Verse 15. But let none of you suffer as a murderer.
Taking the life of your fellowman, taking away his goods without the right to do so, or doing any forbidden thing, or meddling in any way with the affairs of your neighbors, are all wrong, and should you suffer punishment therefore, you suffer justly, and are not entitled to any sympathy, glory or credit, even if you bear the punishment courageously.
Verse 15. _BUT LET NONE OF YOU SUFFER - AS A BUSYBODY IN OTHER_ _MEN'S MATTERS_] αλλοτριοεπισκοπος. _The inspector of another_; meddling with other people's concerns, and forgetting their own; such p...
BUT LET NONE OF YOU SUFFER AS A MURDERER - If you must be called to suffer, see that it be not for crime. Compare the notes at 1Pe 3:14, 1 Peter 3:17. They were to be careful that their sufferings wer...
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....
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...
THE OBLIGATION OF THE CHRISTIAN (1 Peter 4:1-5)...
BUT. For. NONE. not (Greek. _me)_ any one (App-123.) EVILDOER. See 1 Peter 2:12. BUSYBODY IN, &C. Greek. _allotrioepiskopos._ Only here. An overseer in things concerning another. See App-124. Compar...
_But let none of you suffer as a murderer_ Literally, FOR LET NONE OF YOU SUFFER. The implied sequence of thought would seem to be this: "I bid you suffer for the name of Christ and remind you of the...
The question whether the “suffering” referred to in this passage implies a legal persecution conducted by the state, and its consequent bearing upon the date of the Epistle has been fully discussed in...
ΠΑΣΧΈΤΩ _praes. imper. act. 3 pers. sing. от_ ΠΆΣΧΩ (G3958) страдать, ΦΟΝΕΎΣ (G5406) убийца, ΚΛΈΠΤΗΣ (G2812) вор. ΚΑΚΟΠΟΙΌΣ (G2555) злодей, ΆΛΛΟΤΡΙΕΠΊΣΚΟΠΟΣ (G244) тот, кто вмешивается в чужие дела...
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...
BUT LET NONE OF YOU SUFFER AS A MURDERER, &C.— _Let not therefore any of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or a malefactor; or as one who busily affects the government of other men,_ or the magist...
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...
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. BUT - `For.' 'Reproached in the name of Christ,' I say (1 Peter 4:14), 'FOR let...
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...
Christians know that it is wrong to murder or to steal. These are among the 10 commands that God gave to Moses (Exodus 20). It is also wrong to ‘make trouble in other people’s lives’. That means being...
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...
(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...
BUT LET NONE OF YOU. — The Greek takes exactly the opposite turn: “_for_ let none of you suffer.” The connection is a little difficult, but it seems to be this: “I say advisedly that you are happy, an...
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...
γάρ. I assume that you suffer in Christ's name as representing Him and bearing only the reproach which attaches to it _per se_. The crimes of which slanderers had accused Christians are given in the o...
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...
(15) 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. (15) The third difference: the godly are not afflicted for their evil doin...
_Or a railer. [2] The Greek here signifies one that does evil, or a malefactor. --- Or as coveting the goods of others. [3] The Greek rather signifies one curiously prying into the affairs of others,...
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...
15._But _(or, _For_)_let one of you _Here also he anticipates an objection. He had exhorted the faithful to patience, if it happened to them to be persecuted for the cause of Christ; he now adds the r...
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...
BUT LET NONE OF YOU SUFFER AS A MURDERER,.... The punishment for murder was death by the law of God, Genesis 9:6 OR AS A THIEF; whose fine or mulct, according to the Jewish law, was a fivefold or fou...
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. Ver. 15. _As a busybody_] Gr. A bishop in another man's diocese, a pragmatic p...
_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...
Suffering as Christians:...
BUT LET NONE OF YOU SUFFER AS A MURDERER, OR AS A THIEF, OR AS AN EVIL-DOER, OR AS A BUSYBODY IN OTHER MEN'S MATTERS....
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 4:15 ‘By no means let any of you suffer as. murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or. troublesome meddler;'_ ‘BY NO MEANS LET ANY OF YOU' -‘Let'-Sin is always something that is chosen by the ind...
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...
BUT LET NOISE OF YOU SUFFER AS A MURDERER, OR AS A THIEF: keep clear of those crimes which may expose you to suffering by the hand of justice, and carry yourselves so innocently, that you may never su...
Cyprian Epistle VI another returns to that country whence he was banished, to perish when arrested, not now as being a Christian, but as being a criminal![10] Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Tes...
1 Peter 4:15 But G1063 let G3958 none G3361 G5100 you G5216 suffer G3958 (G5720) as G5613 murderer...
‘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...
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...
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...
1 Peter 4:15. FOR LET NONE OF YOU SUFFER AS A MURDERER, OR A THIEF, OR AN EVIL-DOER. The ‘but' with which the A. V. begins the verse is wrong. Peter's word is ‘for;' which is used here with an explana...
LET NO ONE OF YOU SUFFER (μη τις υμων πασχετω). Prohibition with μη and present active imperative (habit prohibited).AS (ως). Charged as and being so. Two specific crimes (murderer, thief) and one...
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....
NONE OF YOU. "Being guilty of such things as these bring neither glory or reward to those who suffer because of them!...
_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 2:20; 1 Thessalonians 4:11; 1 Timothy 5:13; 2 Thessalonians 3:11;...
A busybody in other men's matters [α λ λ ο τ ρ ι ο ε π ι σ κ ο π ο ς]. Only here in New Testament. Lit., the overseer of another's matters. One who usurps authority in matters not within his province....
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...
Let none of you deservedly suffer, as an evildoer — In any kind....
Observe here, 1. What it is that the apostle calls upon them to avoid and shun; it is sin, not suffering: evil doing in general, murder and theft in particular, sins that were then very much practised...