suffer for doing what is wrong, receiving the expected discipline of the Lord for their disobeying His Word (cf. 2:20; 4:15–19). God sometimes wills that believers suffer for righteousness so they might receive the blessings that come out of such suffering. It is also God’s will that believers endure His beneficial chastisement when they sin (Heb. 12:5–11). Of the two possibilities that may come, Peter recognizes that the first is unique because it comes only if God should will it so. That is a