1 Peter 3:14 Cross References - Moffatt

¹⁴ Even supposing you have to suffer for the sake of what is right, still you are blessed. Have no fear of their threats, do not let that trouble you,

¹⁰ Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of goodness! the Realm of heaven is theirs. ¹¹ Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake; ¹² rejoice and exult in it, for your reward is rich in heaven; that is how they persecuted the prophets before you.

¹⁸ and you will be haled before governors and kings for my sake — it will be a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. ¹⁹ Now, when they bring you up for trial, do not trouble yourselves about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will come to you at the moment, ²⁰ for you are not the speakers, it is the Spirit of your Father that is speaking through you. ²¹ Brother will betray brother to death, the father will betray his child, children will rise against their parents and put them to death, ²² and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.

²⁸ Have no fear of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul: rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

³¹ fear not, then, you are worth far more than sparrows!

³⁹ He who has found his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

²⁵ for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

²⁹ Everyone who has left brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands or houses for my name's sake will get a hundred times as much and inherit life eternal.

³⁵ for whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it.

²⁹ Jesus said, "I tell you truly, no one has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel,

²² Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man; ²³ rejoice on that day and leap for joy! rich is your reward in heaven for their fathers did the very same to the prophets.

⁴ I tell you, my friends, have no fear of those who kill the body but after that can do no more; ⁵ I will show you whom to fear — fear Him who after he has killed has power to cast you into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you, fear Him.

¹ Let not your hearts be disquieted; you believe — believe in God and also in me.

²⁷ Peace I leave to you, my peace I give to you; I give it not as the world gives its 'Peace!' Let not your hearts be disquieted or timid.

¹⁶ I will show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my Name."

⁹ And the Lord said to Paul in a vision by night, "Have no fear, speak on and never stop, ¹⁰ for I am with you, and no one shall attack and injure you; I have many people in this city."

¹⁰ It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.

²⁹ For on behalf of Christ you have the favour of suffering no less than of believing in him,

¹² Blessed is he who endures under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the crown of life which is promised to all who love Him.

¹⁹ for it is a merit when from a sense of God one bears the pain of unjust suffering. ²⁰ Where is the credit in standing punishment for having done wrong? No, if you stand suffering for having done right, that is what God counts a merit.

⁶ Thus Sara obeyed Abraham by calling him 'lord'. And you are daughters of Sara if you do what is right and yield to no panic.

¹³ You are sharing what Christ suffered; so rejoice in it, that you may also rejoice and exult when his glory is revealed. ¹⁴ If you are denounced for the sake of Christ, you are blessed; for then the Spirit of glory and power, the Spirit of God himself, is resting on you. ¹⁵ None of you must suffer as a murderer or a thief or a bad character or a revolutionary; ¹⁶ but if a man suffers for being a Christian, he must not be ashamed, he must rather glorify God for that.