For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.


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1 Peter 3 14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
1 Peter 2 20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Proverbs 11 17 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
2 Timothy 2 10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Psalms 32 10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
Proverbs 28 10 Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
Job 36 21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Joshua 23 15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
2 Timothy 2 12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
Romans 5 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
Matthew 3 15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
Proverbs 15 16 Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
2 Thessalonians 1 5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
Proverbs 11 23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
1 Peter 2 19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
Psalms 125 3 For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
Romans 11 22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Proverbs 13 21 Evil pursueth sinners: but to the righteous good shall be repayed.
Luke 6 35 But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
2 Samuel 22 26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
Psalms 84 10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
1 Thessalonians 5 15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.
Proverbs 11 19 As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.
Ezekiel 33 13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
Job 35 8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
2 Corinthians 7 10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
Proverbs 10 28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Ezra 9 13 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;
Jeremiah 45 5 And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
Psalms 1 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
2 Corinthians 3 9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
1 Corinthians 11 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
Romans 5 17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.
Romans 7 13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.
Proverbs 16 20 He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he.
Jeremiah 18 20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
1 Peter 4 19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
2 Chronicles 25 8 But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.
Jonah 4 3 Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Job 34 23 For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.
2 Corinthians 7 12 Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you.
Psalms 97 10 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Ezekiel 36 31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
2 Peter 2 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Proverbs 12 21 There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.
Romans 14 16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
Psalms 141 4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
1 Peter 4 16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
Mark 7 12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
Jeremiah 32 42 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.