Gleaning through 1 Peter 2:18-25, A call for Submission of slaves to Masters or in our everyday language Employee to Employer.

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Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.

He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. 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. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Beloved Peter is urging Christians as Paul did in Ephesians 6:5-9,

Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a bondservant or is free. Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

This was often the treatment of slaves in Peter's day. Peter takes the reality of an unrighteous institution in the Roman world and tells believers how to honor God within it. Whether their masters were gentle or cruel, or good or bad. Christian slaves were to shine the light of Christ by their service and their attitude.

Now this could result in suffering unjustly.

Today, we'd say, "Employees, obey your bosses." Many people say it's great to work for a Christian boss, but what if your boss isn't godly? You should obey not only kind and gentle bosses but also those who are harsh or unreasonable,( and we all have had bosses who were mean and sometimes unreasonable ). Listen as long as they don't ask you to do anything illegal dishonest, or unbiblical. Again this could result in suffering unjustly (Ex)

Servants, or (employees) obey your masters." Listen, Peter says this is a gracious thing, when mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly.

For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure?” “ Peter is reminding them and us, that it is better to do good and suffer for it than to do evil and suffer

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