not.“For what credit is it if,when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God” (1 Pet. 2:20). But it’s better to be hated while affirming than hated for not affirming. Peter gives his readers a double commendation: (1) for doing good and (2) for enduring when they suffer for doing good (another Christlike character quality).
