1 Peter 2:18-25

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

Be Subject To Your Masters, Whether Good Or Bad, Following Christ’s Example

¹⁸ ... servants, being subject to your masters with all fear^[a], not only to the good and kind ones, but also to the crooked^[b] ones. ¹⁹ For this finds favor— if for the sake of a consciousness^[c] of God one bears-up^[d] while suffering sorrows unjustly. ²⁰ For what-kind-of credit^[e] is it if while sinning and being beaten, you will endure? But if while doing-good and suffering you will endure, this finds favor with God. ²¹ For you were called to this^[f]. Because Christ also suffered for you, leaving-behind a pattern for you in order that you might follow-after His footsteps—

Christ Suffered Unjustly, Entrusting Himself To God

²² ... Who “did not commit sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth” [Isa 53:9]; ²³ Who while being reviled, was not reviling-in-return; while suffering, was not threatening, but was committing Himself ^[g] to the One judging righteously; ²⁴ Who Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross in order that we, having died^[h] to sins, might live for righteousness; by Whose bruise you were healed. ²⁵ For you were going-astray like sheep, but now you returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.