Study it in the app“but with gentleness and fear, having a good conscience, so that in what you are spoken against, those who abuse your good conduct in the Messiah may be put to shame.”
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gentleness
Gentleness: a mild and humble way of treating others.
Where else “praytētos” appearsfear
The fear that seizes one before danger or something terrible.
Where else “phobou” appearshave
To count something or someone as one's own: goods, family, faith, power.
Where else “echontes” appearsgood
Being as it should be and doing others good; in the full sense, God alone.
Where else “agathēn” appearsconscience
Conscience: the inner sense that judges whether what one does is right or wrong.
Where else “syneidēsin” appearsspeak against
Speak against someone, slander, speak evil of them.
Where else “katalaleisthe” appearsmistreat
Mistreat, insult, abuse.
Where else “epēreazontes” appearsconduct, way of life
Conduct, the way one lives day by day.
Where else “anastrophēn” appearsMessiah
Messiah: literally "anointed", the king or envoy God consecrates with oil. It is a title, not a surname; in Hebrew, mashiach.
Where else “Christōi” appearsbe ashamed
To be disgraced, let down.
Where else “kataischynthōsin” appears15but sanctify the Messiah as Lord in your hearts, always ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you;
16 · This verse (above)
17For it is better, if the will of God should will it, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
