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New International Version

When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats.
Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly.

New Living Translation

He did not retaliate when he was insulted, nor threaten revenge when he suffered. He left his case in
the hands of God, who always judges fairly.

English Standard Version

When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued
entrusting himself to him who judges justly.

Berean Study Bible

When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but
entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.

Berean Literal Bible

Who being reviled did not retaliate; suffering did not threaten, but He gave Himself over to Him judging
justly.

New American Standard Bible

and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept
entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously;

King James Bible

Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed
himself to him that judgeth righteously:

Christian Standard Bible

when he was insulted, he did not insult in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten but entrusted
himself to the one who judges justly.

Contemporary English Version

Although he was abused, he never tried to get even. And when he suffered, he made no threats.
Instead, he had faith in God, who judges fairly.

Good News Translation

When he was insulted, he did not answer back with an insult; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but
placed his hopes in God, the righteous Judge.

Holman Christian Standard Bible

when He was reviled, He did not revile in return; when He was suffering, He did not threaten but
entrusted Himself to the One who judges justly.

International Standard Version

When he was insulted, he did not retaliate. When he suffered, he did not threaten. It was his habit to
commit the matter to the one who judges fairly.

NET Bible

When he was maligned, he did not answer back; when he suffered, he threatened no retaliation, but
committed himself to God who judges justly.

New Heart English Bible

Who, when he was cursed, did not curse back. When he suffered, did not threaten, but committed
himself to him who judges righteously;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English

He who was insulted and did not insult, and he suffered and did not threaten, but he handed his
judgment over to The Judge of righteousness.

GOD'S WORD® Translation

Christ never verbally abused those who verbally abused him. When he suffered, he didn't make any
threats but left everything to the one who judges fairly.

New American Standard 1977

and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept
entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously;
Jubilee Bible 2000

who, when he was cursed, did not return the curse; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but
committed himself to him that judges righteously;

King James 2000 Bible

Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed
himself to him that judges righteously:

American King James Version

Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed
himself to him that judges righteously:

American Standard Version

who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered threatened not; but committed himself
to him that judgeth righteously:

Douay-Rheims Bible

Who, when he was reviled, did not revile: when he suffered, he threatened not: but delivered himself to
him that judged him unjustly.

Darby Bible Translation

who, [when] reviled, reviled not again; [when] suffering, threatened not; but gave [himself] over into
the hands of him who judges righteously;

English Revised Version

who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not; but committed himself
to him that judgeth righteously:

Webster's Bible Translation

Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed
himself to him that judgeth righteously:

Weymouth New Testament

When He was reviled, He did not answer with reviling; when He suffered He uttered no threats, but left
His wrongs in the hands of the righteous Judge.
World English Bible

Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself
to him who judges righteously;

Young's Literal Translation

who being reviled -- was not reviling again, suffering -- was not threatening, and was committing himself
to Him who is judging righteously,

Study Bible

Christ's Example of Suffering

…22“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.” 23When they heaped abuse on Him,
He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges
justly. 24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to
righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”…

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Cross References

Isaiah 53:7

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

Luke 23:41

We are punished justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for our actions. But this man has done
nothing wrong."

Hebrews 12:3

Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

1 Peter 3:9

Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that
you may inherit a blessing.

Treasury of Scripture

Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed
himself to him that judges righteously:
when he was.

Psalm 38:12-14 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that …

Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: …

Matthew 27:39-44 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads…

Mark 14:60,61 And the high priest stood up in the middle, and asked Jesus, saying, …

Mark 15:29-32 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, …

Luke 22:64,65 And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and …

Luke 23:9,34-39 Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing…

John 8:48,49 Then answered the Jews, and said to him, Say we not well that you …

John 19:9-11 And went again into the judgment hall, and said to Jesus, From where …

Acts 8:32-35 The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as …

Hebrews 12:3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against …

threatened.

Acts 4:29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant to your servants, …

Acts 9:1 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the …

Ephesians 6:9 And, you masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening: …
but.

1 Peter 4:19 Why let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the …

Psalm 10:14 You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it …

Psalm 31:5 Into your hand I commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

Psalm 37:5 Commit your way to the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

Luke 23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into …

Acts 7:59 And they stoned Stephen, calling on God, and saying, Lord Jesus, …

2 Timothy 1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am …

himself. or, his cause. judgeth.

Genesis 18:25 That be far from you to do after this manner, to slay the righteous …

Psalm 7:11 God judges the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

Psalm 96:13 Before the LORD: for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth: he …

Acts 17:31 Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world …

Romans 2:5 But after your hardness and impenitent heart treasure up to yourself …

2 Thessalonians 1:5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that …
2 Timothy 4:8 From now on there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which …

Revelation 19:11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat …

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(23) Who, when he was reviled.--This "who" might be rendered by and yet He. Conscious though He was
of being blameless (John 8:46), it did not make Him retaliate upon His accusers by counter-accusations,
true though these might have been. The word here translated "revile" is the same which reappears in
1Peter 3:9 as "railing," and a sample of what it means is given in John 9:28. The servants would be
particularly liable to be thus abused, and instances are not wanting in the comic poets where they lose
their self-control under it, and openly rate their owners in return. The "suffering," on the other hand,
implies actual bodily maltreatment, "buffeting" (1Peter 2:20) and the like, to which the slaves could not
answer directly by striking in return, but would sometimes take their revenge by "threats" of what they
would do--run away, or burn the house, or poison the food, or do little acts of spite. Instances of our
Lord's silence or meekness under "reviling" may be seen in John 7:20; John 8:40; Matthew 12:24, as well
as in the accounts of the Passion. There are no recorded instances, until the last day of His life, of His
"suffering" in the sense here intended; but the tense of the verbs "reviled," "threatened," "committed,"
shows that the writer was not thinking exclusively of any one occasion, but of our Lord's constant habit,
though naturally there would be uppermost in St. Peter's mind the hours while he stood warming
himself at Caiaphas' fire, with the denial on his lips, and saw the Messiah blindfold and buffeted. He is
also thinking of Isaiah 53:7.

But committed himself.--This was His only form of revenge. As the Greek does not express the
grammatical object of the verb, it is better not to supply one so definite as "Himself" or "His cause,"
rather, "but would leave it to Him that judgeth righteously." M. Renan (Antechrist, p. 117) says that this
passage "requires it to be understood that the incident of Jesus praying for His murderers was not
known by Peter;" and other critics have held the same view. But (1) St. Peter, as we have said, is
speaking of what was the constant habit of Jesus, not of what He did on the day of His crucifixion only.
(2) The word does not necessarily imply any act or word of direct appeal to God to judge between His
murderers and Him; on the contrary, the leading thought is that of "passing the matter over" to God
(comp. Romans 12:19), by simply refusing to take any action in self-defence. (3) It would have been
unlike the usual method of the Epistles to make direct reference to any of the minor details of our Lord's
history. (4) Such a reference here would be beyond the point, for St. Peter said nothing in 1Peter 2:19
about praying for the bad masters, and here he is only justifying by Christ's example the position he had
laid down there.

To him that judgeth righteously.--God is described in the aspect which is most reassuring to men who
are suffering unjustly (2Thessalonians 1:5). This looks back to that "consciousness of God" spoken of in
1Peter 2:19. There is a curious various reading which is adopted by the Vulgate, though without any
solid authority, and evidently a mere blunder, the interpretation of which we may leave to those who
are committed to it: "He gave Himself over to him (or, to one) who judgeth unrighteously." St. Cyprian
seems to have understood it of our Lord's voluntary self-surrender to Pilate.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 23. - Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not (comp.
Isaiah 53:7). The Lord again and again denounced the hypocrisy and unbelief of the Pharisees; he bade
Caiaphas remember the coming judgment. But that was the language of prophetic warning, the
sternness of love. He sets before them the impending punishment, that they may take heed in time and
escape from the wrath to come. In the midst of his strongest invective against the sins and hollow
unreality of Pharisaism there is an outburst of the deepest love, the tenderest concern (Matthew 23:27).
But committed himself to him that judgeth righteously. The verb "committed" παρεδίδου) is without an
object in the original. Most commentators supply "himself," or "his cause;" others, "his sufferings;"
some, as Alford, "those who inflicted them." Perhaps the last explanation is the best: he left them to
God, to God's mercy, if it might be; to his judgment, if it must be. There may be a reference to his
prayer, "Father, forgive them." Compare by contrast the language of Jeremiah, speaking in the spirit of
the Old Testament (Jeremiah 11:20 and Jeremiah 20:12). There is a curious reading, entirely without the
authority of existing Greek manuscripts, represented by the Vulgate, Tradebat judicanti se injuste, as if
the words were understood of the Lord's submitting himself "to one who judged unrighteously," that is,
to Pilate.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Who when he was reviled, reviled not again,.... When he was reproached as a glutton, a winebibber, a
friend of publicans and sinners, all the reply he made was, that Wisdom is justified of her children; and
when he was charged with casting out devils by Beelzebub, the prince of devils, he defended himself,
not with bad language, but with strong reasonings; and when he was said to be a Samaritan, and had a
devil, his only answer was, that he had not, that he honoured his Father, and they dishonoured him; and
when he was reviled on the cross, by those that passed by, by the chief priests, and Scribes, and the
thieves that were crucified with him, he made no return, he opened not his mouth, and much less in a
recriminating way,

When he suffered he threatened not; when he endured buffetings, and scourgings in his body, when the
officers in the palace of the high priests spit in his face, buffeted him, and smote him with the palms of
their hands, and bid him prophesy who smote him, all which were very provoking; yet he said not one
word to them, much less threatened them with what he would do to them for such usage another day,
when he would let them know, with vengeance, who it was that smote him; no, he took all patiently
from them, and from Pilate, and the Roman soldiers, when scourged by them; he gave his back to the
smiters, and his cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; and when he suffered crucifixion, and was put
to such distressing pains and agonies, he did not threaten his crucifiers with a future judgment, when he
would take vengeance, and execute his wrath upon them, but prays to his Father for the forgiveness of
their sins: and, as it follows,

but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously; he commended his Spirit, or soul, to God his
Father, and committed his cause to him, to vindicate it in what way he should think fit, who he knew
was the Judge of all the earth, that would do right; and so the Syriac version supplies it with "his
judgment": which he left with God, the righteous Judge, to whom vengeance belongs; and which is an
example, and an instruction to the saints to do so likewise; not to render railing for railing, or to seek
revenge, but to leave their cause with their God, who will, in his own time, avenge the wrongs and
injuries done them. The Vulgate Latin version reads, contrary to all the Greek copies, and other versions,
"but delivered himself to him that judgeth unjustly"; the sense of which is, that Christ delivered himself
into the hands of Pilate, who unjustly condemned him to death; but is neither the reading, nor sense of
the text.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

23. Servants are apt to "answer again" (Tit 2:9). Threats of divine judgment against oppressors are often
used by those who have no other arms, as for instance, slaves. Christ, who as Lord could have
threatened with truth, never did so.

committed himself—or His cause, as man in His suffering. Compare the type, Jer 11:20. In this Peter
seems to have before his mind Isa 53:8. Compare Ro 12:19, on our corresponding duty. Leave your case
in His hands, not desiring to make Him executioner of your revenge, but rather praying for enemies.
God's righteous judgment gives tranquillity and consolation to the oppressed.

Matthew Henry Commentary

2:18-25 Servants in those days generally were slaves, and had heathen masters, who often used them
cruelly; yet the apostle directs them to be subject to the masters placed over them by Providence, with
a fear to dishonour or offend God. And not only to those pleased with reasonable service, but to the
severe, and those angry without cause. The sinful misconduct of one relation, does not justify sinful
behaviour in the other; the servant is bound to do his duty, though the master may be sinfully froward
and perverse. But masters should be meek and gentle to their servants and inferiors. What glory or
distinction could it be, for professed Christians to be patient when corrected for their faults? But if when
they behaved well they were ill treated by proud and passionate heathen masters, yet bore it without
peevish complaints, or purposes of revenge, and persevered in their duty, this would be acceptable to
God as a distinguishing effect of his grace, and would be rewarded by him. Christ's death was designed
not only for an example of patience under sufferings, but he bore our sins; he bore the punishment of
them, and thereby satisfied Divine justice. Hereby he takes them away from us. The fruits of Christ's
sufferings are the death of sin, and a new holy life of righteousness; for both which we have an example,
and powerful motives, and ability to perform also, from the death and resurrection of Christ. And our
justification; Christ was bruised and crucified as a sacrifice for our sins, and by his stripes the diseases of
our souls are cured. Here is man's sin; he goes astray; it is his own act. His misery; he goes astray from
the pasture, from the Shepherd, and from the flock, and so exposes himself to dangers without number.
Here is the recovery by conversion; they are now returned as the effect of Divine grace. This return is,
from all their errors and wanderings, to Christ. Sinners, before their conversion, are always going astray;
their life is a continued error.

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