John Baumgartner \ What Peter wrote to these Christians under severe persecution can also help us. Unbelievers will accuse Christians of doing evil, but Christians’ good deeds will show that accusation to be a lie, and God will be glorified through it all. Christians are to respond to unjust suffering as subjects of government and as subjects of masters/employers by enduring it. Jesus conquered all the world by patiently enduring suffering, trusting Himself to God and His church fills the world with His gospel by doing just the same.