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.
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Gill's Exposition
But let none of you suffer as a murderer,.... The punishment for murder was death by the law of God, Gen 9:6
or as a thief; whose fine or mulct, according to the Jewish law, was a fivefold or…
Barnes' Notes
But let none of you suffer as a murderer - If you must be called to suffer, see that it be not for crime. Compare the notes at 1Pe 3:14, 1Pe 3:17. They were to be careful that their sufferings were…
Adam Clarke
But let none of you suffer - as a busybody in other men's matters - Αλλοτριοεπισκοπος· The inspector of another; meddling with other people's concerns, and forgetting their own; such persons are hated…
The frequent repetition of counsel and comfort to Christians, considered as sufferers, in every chapter of this epistle, shows that the greatest danger these new converts were in arose from the…
Cambridge Bible
But let none of you suffer as a murderer Literally, For let none of you suffer. The implied sequence of thought would seem to be this: "I bid you suffer for the name of Christ and remind you of the…
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