1 Peter 2:18-20

Submission to Authority

¹⁸ _w Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. ¹⁹ For this is a gracious thing, when, _x mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. ²⁰ For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But _y if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.

1. Cross References
   Ephesians 6:5
   Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ.
   Colossians 3:22
   Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.
   1 Timothy 6:1
   Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.
   Titus 2:9
   Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Peter 3:14
   But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled.
   1 Peter 3:17
   For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.
   1 Peter 4:16
   Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Peter 3:17 - 18
   For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil.
   1 Peter 4:13
   But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.
   1 Peter 4:16
   Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.