KJV King James Version
Yet if [any man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
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.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
But if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but glorify God that you bear that name.
WEB World English Bible
But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
ASV American Standard Version
but if a man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this name.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him glorify God in this respect;
Surrounding context — 1 Peter 4
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy [are ye]; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
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.
16 Yet if [any man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
17 For the time [is come] that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if [it] first [begin] at us, what shall the end [be] of them that obey not the gospel of God?
18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
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.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
εἰG1487 · eiifδὲG1161 · dethenὡςG5613 · hōsas/whenΧριστιανός,G5546 · ChristianosChristianμὴG3361 · mēnotαἰσχυνέσθω,G153 · aischunōbe ashamedδοξαζέτωG1392 · doxazōto glorifyδὲG1161 · dethenτὸνG3588 · hothe/this/whoθεὸνG2316 · theosGodἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongτῷG3588 · hothe/this/whoὀνόματιG3686 · onomanameτούτῳ.G3778 · ohutosthis/he/she/it
Cross-references
1 Peter 3:17-18For [it is] better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.Philippians 1:29For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;1 Peter 4:19Wherefore 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.James 1:2-4My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;2 Timothy 1:12For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.Acts 5:41And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.Ephesians 3:13-15Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.Philippians 1:20According to my earnest expectation and [my] hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether [it be] by life, or by death.Romans 5:2-5By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.Isaiah 50:7For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.Acts 26:28Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.Hebrews 12:2-3Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.Isaiah 54:4Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.Isaiah 24:15Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, [even] the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.Acts 11:26And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
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