| Geneva Study Bible If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: People's New Testament 2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him. We die in order to live. So our suffering with Christ worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory (2Co 4:17). Compare also Ro 8:17 Mt 19:27,28. If we deny him, he also will deny us. See Mt 10:33. Wesley's Notes 2:12 If we deny him - To escape suffering for him. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 12. suffer-rather, as the Greek is the same as in 2Ti 2:10, "If we endure (with Him)" (Ro 8:17). reign with him-The peculiar privilege of the elect Church now suffering with Christ, then to reign with Him (see on [2497]1Co 6:2). Reigning is something more than mere salvation (Ro 5:17; Re 3:21; 5:10; 20:4, 5). deny-with the mouth. As "believe" with the heart follows, 2Ti 2:12. Compare the opposite, "confess with thy mouth" and "believe in thine heart" (Ro 10:9, 10). he also will deny us-(Mt 10:33). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 2:8-13 Let suffering saints remember, and look to Jesus, the Author and Finisher of their faith, who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despised the shame, and is now set down at the right hand of the throne of God. We must not think it strange if the best men meet with the worst treatment; but this is cheering, that the word of God is not bound. Here we see the real and true cause of the apostle's suffering trouble in, or for, the sake of the gospel. If we are dead to this world, its pleasures, profits, and honours, we shall be for ever with Christ in a better world. He is faithful to his threatenings, and faithful to his promises. This truth makes sure the unbeliever's condemnation, and the believer's salvation. | 
