But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. "Don't fear what they fear, neither be troubled."

 (iv) He lays it down that the work of Christ was to bring us to God. Christ died once and for all for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. The word for "to bring" is prosagein ( G4317) . It has two vivid backgrounds. 