It is better to suffer for doing good (1 Peter 3:17) : Christian Daily Devotional Bible Study and Prayer
Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional Bible study and prayer
Carey Green
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🗓️ 6 November 2025
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TODAY'S SCRIPTURE:
1 Peter 3:17 - For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil. (ESV)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, my friends. What is important enough to you that you would be willing to suffer for it? |
| 0:12.8 | Let me ask that question again. What is important enough to you that you would be willing to suffer for it? |
| 0:19.6 | That's the question that's before us on today's episode of the morning |
| 0:23.3 | mindset. I hope you're ready to get your mind aligned with the truth of God's word for this |
| 0:28.9 | day. We'll be looking at 1 Peter chapter 3 verse number 17. So get out your Bibles, |
| 0:35.3 | get out your morning mindset, if you have one. |
| 0:38.3 | If you're interested in getting a Morning Mindset Journal, it's just a very simple, plain sort of tool to help you organize your thoughts and do some meditation and pondering as you consider the scriptures that we cover on the Morning Mindset Day by Day. |
| 0:52.3 | If you're interested in finding one, |
| 0:57.4 | you can go to morning mindsetmedia.com slash journal. |
| 0:59.7 | All right, friends, before we dig in, |
| 1:01.3 | you know what my habit is. |
| 1:04.0 | It is to pray that God will be our teacher today. |
| 1:04.8 | So join me. |
| 1:08.7 | Lord God, we ask you, yes, to be our teacher. |
| 1:12.1 | Do the power of your Holy Spirit within each of us, open our hearts and our minds to understand what your word is saying, and then not just to understand, but to |
| 1:17.0 | apply it in a way that moves us to action. We ask it in Jesus' name, amen. Okay, friends, get out your |
| 1:24.7 | Bible, 1. Peter 317. |
| 1:35.7 | The Apostle Peter has just told us we're to respond to people who ask us about our faith in Jesus with gentleness and with respect. |
| 1:41.8 | And this phrase that we're going to read here in verse 17 comes right on the heels of that instruction. |
| 1:46.1 | And it's really the reason why we're to do what he just said, |
| 1:52.3 | respond with gentleness and respect. And here it is. He says, for it is better to suffer for doing good if that should be God's will than for doing evil. Now think about this for a moment. It is possible, |
| 2:00.4 | definitely, for us to suffer because we've done something bad. |
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