If the will of God be so; viz. that ye must suffer; intimating that this is an argument for their patience and submission in their sufferings, and a ground of comfort to them, that they are led into them by the providence of God, (not by their own folly or rashness), and have him for a witness and judge both of their cause and deportment.
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1 Peter 3:17
17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.