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What do we need to do to be pure & blameless?
Philippians 1:9-11
What would be your response that Jesus is coming anytime soon?
2 Peter 3:1-18
Why is the person known by its words?
Matthew 12:33-37
What wisdom do you possess?
James 3:13-18
For what does God empower us?
Ephesians 3:14-21
How do you receive Christ?
Colossians 2:6-7
In speaking with neighbors, in your temper, in your works and in your words.
Ephesians 4:25-32
how do you help the truly needy and the unrepentant needy believer?
2 Thessalonians 3:6-15
Do their roles in marriage affect their spiritual walk?
1 Peter 3:1-7
How do you treat your enemy?
Luke 6:27-36
the arc is hard.
2 Corinthians 4:3-7
why is love the fulfillment of the law?
1 Corinthians 2:8-10
How to stand firm in the spiritual battle?
Ephesians 6:10-20
How do we run the race of faith?
Hebrews 12:1-17
Why God gives you more than you can handle?
2 Corinthians 1:3-11
How God reacts to our sinning?
Ezekiel 6:9-10
I need help. Any corrections on this.
Jeremiah 2:2-13
How not to fall away from the faith?
Hebrews 2:1-4
Why I don't give up even when I see my world falling apart?
2 Corinthians 4:16-5:10
Do you welcome Christ into your life like the anxious and distracted Martha or the worshipful and Bible-devoted Mary?
Luke 10:38-42
Emmanuel is the only One Who can satisfy me.
Hebrews 13:5-6
God has witnessed about His Son, but the people rejected Him.
John 5:37-44
What's the saltiness and radiance of christians for?
Matthew 5:13-16
What's the difference between blessed and wicked man?
Psalms 1:1-6
Why did Solomon hate life?
Ecclesiastes 2:1-17
Does life under sun matter?
Ecclesiastes 1:2-11
Either you're a woman who values beauty or treasures Christ.
Proverbs 31:25-31
You run to powerless false gods because you abandoned the true satisfying God!
Jeremiah 2:10-13
His grace can now be accessed.
Romans 5:1-5
We are justified and saved from God's wrath
Romans 5:6-11
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How To Respond To An Offense?
1 Peter 2:18-25
You can’t change people’s behavior, but you can change yours.
#Offended
#Response
Published July 11th, 2020; Updated July 14th, 2020
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1 Peter 2:18-25
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w Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect,
not only to the good and gentle
but also to the unjust.
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For this is a gracious thing,
when, x mindful of God,
one endures sorrows
while suffering unjustly.
temporal
inference
For what credit is it...
if...when you sin
and are beaten for it,
actionresult
you endure?
situationresponse
conditional
But y if when you do good
and suffer for it
concessive
you endure,
this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.
negativepositive
ground
For z to this you have been called,
y because Christ also suffered for you,
a leaving you an example,
so that you might follow in his steps.
actionpurpose
b He committed no sin,
neither was deceit found in his mouth.
c When he was reviled,
he did not revile in return;
when he suffered,
he did not threaten,
d but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
e He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree,
that we f might die to sin
and g live to righteousness.
h By his wounds you have been healed.
For i you were straying like sheep,
but have now returned to j the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
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1 Peter 2:18-25
w Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect,
not only to the good and gentle
but also to the unjust.
progression
For this is a gracious thing,
when, x mindful of God,
one endures sorrows
while suffering unjustly.
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.
For z to this you have been called,
y because Christ also suffered for you,
a leaving you an example,
so that you might follow in his steps.
b He committed no sin,
neither was deceit found in his mouth.
c When he was reviled,
he did not revile in return;
when he suffered,
he did not threaten,
d but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.
e He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree,
that we f might die to sin
and g live to righteousness.
h By his wounds you have been healed.
For i you were straying like sheep,
but have now returned to j the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
... Favor with God is found when an employee, treated unjustly, accepts his poor treatment with faith in God’s sovereign care, rather than responding in anger, hostility, discontent, pride, or rebellion (cf. Matt. 5:11 ).
Patient endurance.
Efficacious call to salvation.
..He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. (Isaiah 53:7).
.. To “revile” is to pile up abusive and vile language against someone. Though verbally abused, Christ never retaliated with vicious words and threats ( 3:9 ; cf. Matt. 26:57–65 ; 27:12–14 ; Luke 23:7–11 ). entrusting himself. “To entrust” was “to hand over to someone to keep.” Christ was “handed over” to Pilate ( John 19:11 ); Pilate “handed him over” to the Jews ( John 19:16 ); Christ “handed over” himself to God, suffering in surprising silence, because of his perfect confidence in the sovereignty and righteousness of his Father (cf. Isa. 53:7 ). .
Comments
Brent Karding
I agree with your making 21-25 the Ground for 18-20.
Mildred Queenie CS
Yey!
Brent Karding
I think that 24-25 should be a Series with 21-23. I say that because 21a emphasizes our call to endure through suffering, and 24b-c show that Christ died that we might live righteously (i.e. while suffering). Thus they are saying very similar things. (Or perhaps 24-25 should be a Series with 21b-23, since both could be seen as supporting 21a.)
Mildred Queenie CS
Yes kuya, thank you for the correction. I see now that the pronoun “this” refers to the endurance in suffering unjustly in v.18-20.
So to paraphrase 21a, it will go like this, “for to this endurance in 18-20 you have been efficaciously called to salvation”...(i just referred it to Macarthur notes kuya,I hope that paraphrase is correct)
Brent Karding
Yes, I think that's a good way to explain 21a.
Mildred Queenie CS
Okay kuya. Great!
Brent Karding
I really like your work in 19-20: it is excellent. There's a lot of tricky stuff in there, but I think you arced it well.
Mildred Queenie CS
Wow,really kuya?....amazing...I am really enjoying the arcing process kuya..I always use arcing for my Biblestudy or mentoring to younger women..Praise God for the help and guidance you’ve willingly given kuya!
Brent Karding
I'd suggest Progression for 18b-c, since "not only" and "but also" emphasizes the second proposition a little bit.
Mildred Queenie CS
Oh I see..ammm...what does it mean that the second proposition is a bit emphasized kuya?
Brent Karding
In Progression, the last member of the relationship is the climax, the high point, of the list.

If I say, "Today I not only went to the gym, but I stayed there for 2 hours," I'm not giving two facts that are equal in importance, but setting up the second fact as more important by the use of "not only."
Mildred Queenie CS
Amazing new info for arcing kuya...
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