Others have referred to the different topic of doing good while they suffer as per your reference, but verse 19 was meant to be an assurance for believers while they suffer.
What are they entrusting? The keeping of their souls.
To Whom? The faithful Creator.
How are they entrusting Him to perform while they suffer? "In well doing".
"Commit" as per the meaning of the text means "to roll away" thus the keeping of their souls is unto the faithful Creator: that means also that the well doing is being entrusted to the faithful Creator in the keeping of their souls.
Believers that rot in prison are not going to continue to do good that they have always done before. Some will be afflicted and tortured that a believer will need to look beyond their suffering by entrusting Jesus as Lord and that He is in control, and that He will not allow them to be tempted beyond what they are able: and thus entrusting Him to the keeping of their souls in well doing while they suffer.
Commit as applied here in verse 19 means to "entrust". That means "He will do it".
In today's apostasies: we have believers using that term "commit" to justify making a "commitment" in doing good or to follow Christ.
James 4:13Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
Commitment is a term as made by a religious man by declaring, "I will do it." A man's commitment does not speak of God, but testifies of the man's will and determination to do something and to finish it no matter what. This goes to his glory in keeping that commitment. All religious men of the world sees a man's commitment in the same category as a man's promise.
Galatians 3:1O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? 4Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
2 Corinthians 11:19For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. 20For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
Galatians 5:1Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Philippians 1:6Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: ...9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; 10That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ. 11Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
The whole of scriptures reproves using verse 19 as a means to make a commitment to the faithful Creator in doing good. Therefore it is a big deal in using that verse rightly in according to the truth because the well doing is on the faithful Creator in the keeping of our souls while we suffer.
Since scripture are to testify of Jesus Christ in seeking His glory: any changes that deviates away from Him to place the emphasis on the believer or on the Holy Spirit has to be disregarded when the King James Bible has it on Jesus Christ.
John 5:39Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. 40And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
Looking to ourselves or to the Holy Spirit for that which we should be looking to the Son for is apostasy, meaning as standing apart from the truth.
We follow the Son of God by faith in living the christian life or we live the christian life by the religious flesh in keeping our commitment to do so, and they are not the same thing for whatever is not of faith: is sin.
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