1 Peter 4:15

Bible in Basic English

Let no one among you undergo punishment as a taker of life, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as one who is over-interested in other men's business;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or a meddler.

King James Version (1611)
But let none of you suffer as a murtherer, or as a theefe, or as an euill doer, or as a busibody in other mens matters.

King James Version
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

English Standard Version
But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.

New American Standard Bible
Make sure that none of you suffers as a murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or a troublesome meddler;

New Century Version
Do not suffer for murder, theft, or any other crime, nor because you trouble other people.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Make sure that none of you suffers as a murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or a troublesome meddler;

Berean Standard Bible
Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.

Contemporary English Version
But you deserve to suffer if you are a murderer, a thief, a crook, or a busybody.

Complete Jewish Bible
Let none of you suffer for being a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or a meddler in other people's affairs.

Darby Translation
Let none of you suffer indeed as murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or as overseer of other people's matters;

Easy-to-Read Version
You may suffer, but don't let it be because you murder, steal, make trouble, or try to control other people's lives.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But let none of you suffer as a murtherer, or as a thiefe, or an euil doer, or as a busibodie in other mens matters.

George Lamsa Translation
But let none of you suffer the fate of a murderer, or a thief, or a malefactor.

Good News Translation
If you suffer, it must not be because you are a murderer or a thief or a criminal or a meddler in other people's affairs.

Lexham English Bible
By all means do not let anyone of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.

Literal Translation
For do not let any of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or as a meddler in the affairs of others.

Amplified Bible
Make sure that none of you suffers as a murderer, or a thief, or any sort of criminal [in response to persecution], or as a troublesome meddler interfering in the affairs of others;

American Standard Version
For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters:

Hebrew Names Version
For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters.

International Standard Version
Of course, none of you should suffer for being a murderer, thief, criminal, or troublemaker.1 Thessalonians 4:11; 1 Timothy 5:13; 1 Peter 2:20;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Only, let no man of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as a doer of evils.

Murdock Translation
Only let none of you suffer, as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
See that none of you be punished as a murtherer, or as a thiefe, or an euyll doer, or as a busie body in other mens matters.

English Revised Version
For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil–doer, or as a meddler in other men’s matters:

World English Bible
For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other mens matters,

Weymouth's New Testament
But let not one of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evil-doer, or as a spy upon other people's business.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But no man of you suffre as a mansleere, ethir a theef, ether cursere, ethir a disirere of othere mennus goodis;

Update Bible Version
For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other men's matters:

Webster's Bible Translation
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or [as] a thief, or [as] an evil-doer, or as a busy-body in other men's matters.

New English Translation
But let none of you suffer as a murderer or thief or criminal or as a troublemaker.

New King James Version
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other people's matters.

New Living Translation
If you suffer, however, it must not be for murder, stealing, making trouble, or prying into other people's affairs.

New Life Bible
None of you should suffer as one who kills another person or as one who steals or as one who makes trouble or as one who tries to be the boss of other peoples' lives.

New Revised Standard
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, a criminal, or even as a mischief maker.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For let, none of you, be suffering as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as one prying into other men's affairs;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or a railer or coveter of other men’s things.

Revised Standard Version
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or a wrongdoer, or a mischief-maker;

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Se that none of you suffre as a murtherer or as a thefe or an evyll doar or as a busybody in other mens matters.

Young's Literal Translation
for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But se that none of you suffre as a murthurer, or as a thefe, or as an euell doer, or as a busy body in other mens matters.

Mace New Testament (1729)
take care therefore not to suffer upon the account of homicide, or thievery, or for any criminal, or pragmatical practices.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Now, I ain't talking about suffering because you did something wrong.

Contextual Overview

¹² Dear brothers, do not be surprised, as if it was something strange, if your faith is tested as by fire: ¹³ But be glad that you are given a part in the pains of Christ; so that at the revelation of his glory you may have great joy. ¹⁴ If men say evil things of you because of the name of Christ, happy are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God is resting on you. ¹⁵ Let no one among you undergo punishment as a taker of life, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as one who is over-interested in other men's business; ¹⁶ But if he undergoes punishment as a Christian, that is no shame to him; let him give glory to God in this name. ¹⁷ For the time has come for the judging, starting with the church of God; but if it makes a start with us, what will be the end of those who are not under the rule of God? ¹⁸ And if it is hard for even the good man to get salvation, what chance has the man without religion or the sinner? ¹⁹ For this reason let those who by the purpose of God undergo punishment, keep on in well-doing and put their souls into the safe hands of their Maker.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

suffer: 1 Peter 2:20, Matthew 5:11, 2 Timothy 2:9

a busybody: ככןפסיןוניףךןנןע [Strong's G244], an inspector of another; meddling with other people's concerns. 1 Thessalonians 4:11, 2 Thessalonians 3:11, 1 Timothy 5:13

Reciprocal: Job 36:21 - this Acts 21:39 - suffer 1 Corinthians 6:10 - thieves 1 Timothy 3:1 - bishop 1 Timothy 4:10 - therefore 1 Timothy 5:14 - give

Cross-References

Genesis 4:24
If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's.

Leviticus 26:18
And if, even after these things, you will not give ear to me, then I will send you punishment seven times more for your sins.

Leviticus 26:21
And if you still go against me and will not give ear to me, I will put seven times more punishments on you because of your sins.

Leviticus 26:24
Then I will go against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for all your sins.

Leviticus 26:28
Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins.

1 Kings 16:7
And the Lord sent his word against Baasha and his family by the mouth of the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani, because of all the evil he did in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath by the work of his hands, because he was like the family of Jeroboam, and because he put it to death.

Psalms 59:11
Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour.

Psalms 79:12
And give punishment seven times over into the breast of our neighbours for the bitter words which they have said against you, O Lord.

Proverbs 6:31
But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.

Ezekiel 9:4
The Lord said to him, Go through the town, through the middle of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the brows of the men who are sorrowing and crying for all the disgusting things which are done in it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But let none of you suffer as a murderer,.... The punishment for murder was death by the law of God, Genesis 9:6

or as a thief; whose fine or mulct, according to the Jewish law, was a fivefold or fourfold restitution, according to the nature of the thing that was stolen, Exodus 22:1

or as an evildoer; a breaker of any of the laws of God or men, which are of a moral nature, and for the good of civil society:

or as a busybody in other men's matters; "or as a bishop in another man's diocese"; that concerns himself in things he has nothing to do with, and neglects his own affairs, and lives in idleness, and upon the spoil of others; or takes upon him to manage, direct, order, and command other men's servants, or persons that do not belong to him, to do his business, or whatsoever he pleases. The Vulgate Latin version renders it, "a desirer of other's goods"; and the Ethiopic version, "a covetous desirer of other's things"; and so is led on by an insatiable thirst for them, to obtain them in an evil way, either by secret fraud, or open violence and oppression. To suffer in any such cases is scandalous and dishonourable, and unbecoming the character of a Christian. This last clause is left out in the Syriac version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But let none of you suffer as a murderer - If you must be called to suffer, see that it be not for crime. Compare the notes at 1Pe 3:14, 1 Peter 3:17. They were to be careful that their sufferings were brought upon them only in consequence of their religion, and not because any crime could be laid to their charge. If even such charges were brought against them, there should be no pretext furnished for them by their lives.

As an evil doer - As a wicked man; or as guilty of injustice and wrong toward others.

Or as a busy-body in other men’s matters - The Greek word used here ἀλλοτριοεπίσκοπος allotrioepiskopos occurs nowhere else in the New Testament. It means, properly, an inspector of strange things, or of the things of others. Prof. Robinson (Lexicon) supposes that the word may refer to one who is “a director of heathenism;” but the more obvious signification, and the one commonly adopted, is that which occurs in our translation - one who busies himself with what does not concern him; that is, one who pries into the affairs of another; who attempts to control or direct them as if they were his own. In respect to the vice here condemned, see the notes at Philippians 2:4. Compare 2 Thessalonians 3:11, and 1 Timothy 5:13.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. But let none of you suffer - as a busybody in other men's matters — αλλοτριοεπισκοπος. The inspector of another; meddling with other people's concerns, and forgetting their own; such persons are hated of all men. But some think that meddling with those in public office is here intended, as if he had said: Meddle not with the affairs of state, leave public offices and public officers to their own master, strive to live peaceably with all men, and show yourselves to be humble and unaspiring.