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1Pet.3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their prayer; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."{Psalm 34:12-16} 3:13 Now who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators of that which is good?

When does harm come too us? Usually, when we cause trouble, putting our nose into someone private business, being a busy body in the affairs of others, exerting ourselves over others because we think we are authorized by God's word to run peoples lives. But hardly for a good work towards others. Really this is Peters point here we can get a persecution complex because we uphold the bible, or our thinking becomes us and them, and once in that thinking mold so goes good works for those we don't approve of by our religion.

Romans 12:2 Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Let us remember the Lord is righteous he does not have two sets of scales one for your religion, or yourselves and one for the world. Christ died for the world, and rather we understand or not all of us once were the world alienated from God. Its easy to forget ourselves and become very righteous over sin, not realizing by doing good works towards sinner many have come to the Lord over two-thousand years. Moreover, some have found in many years of service through endurance that their own world did not come to end as they imagined through zeal for God; their generation was not the one they thought would see the end of the world.

Romans 14:16 Then don't let your good be slandered.

Romans 15:2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

These were not enduring in good works, they were enduring for destruction of the wicked, not love of neighbor. Many harmed themselves, and others in a self-center religious pursuit of end-time prophecy, having no real love of neighbor. It is the constant love of God towards us in a life-time of trials that we come to appreciate his never-ending love towards us as weak human. It is God and Christ enduring in good works that has saved billions of the human race over thousand's of years. It has not been God's pursuit of destruction, but instead salvation through patience and kindness that we turned to the Lord. Few are harmed for love of neighbor in good works, many are hated and go on hating through judgment of neighbor destruction.

Galatians 6:9 Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.

Philippians 1:6 being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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