1 Peter 4:16 - As a Christian?
Does 1 Peter 4:16 have conditions?
1 Peter 4:15: "For let none (of) you be-suffering AS (a) murderer or thief or evil-doer, or as (a) meddler."
1 Peter 4:16: "BUT if (one suffers) AS (A) CHRISTIAN, let-him not be-ashamed, but let-him-be-glorifying God in this matter."
It is written: "For let none (of) you be-suffering AS (a) murderer or thief or evil-doer, or as (a) meddler. BUT if (one suffers) AS (A) CHRISTIAN, let-him not be-ashamed" (1 Peter 4:15-16).
Peter seems to contrast two main possibilities for his audience to suffer: either "AS (a) murderer or thief or evil-doer, or as (a) meddler" (1 Peter 4:15), or set in contrast to that: "BUT if (one suffers) AS (A) CHRISTIAN" (1 Peter 4:16).
If these two main categories are put in contrast, then this would indicate that being "AS (a) murderer or thief or evil-doer, or as (a) meddler" (1 Peter 4:15) may also be contrasted to being "AS (A) CHRISTIAN" (1 Peter 4:16).
This would suggest that being "AS (A) CHRISTIAN" (1 Peter 4:16) would be require that one is not being "AS (a) murderer or thief or evil-doer, or as (a) meddler" (1 Peter 4:15).
It is written somewhere else that "the disciples (were) first called CHRISTIANS in Antioch" (Acts 11:26). This would suggest that those who were "called CHRISTIANS" (Acts 11:26) in that verse were "disciples" (Acts 11:26).
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