8 Bible Verses about Accepting Beatings
Most Relevant Verses
The just one shall smite me; a mercy: and he shall admonish me, an oil of the head it shall not decorate my head: for yet my prayer in their evils.
For ye bear, if any reduce you to bondage, if any devour, if any receive, if any be lifted up, if any skin you on the face.
For what glory, if, sinning and being cuffed, ye endure? but if, doing good, and suffering, ye endure, this is grace with God.
But I say to you not to resist evil: but whosoever shall smite thee with a rod upon thy right cheek, turn to him also the other.
To him striking thee upon the cheek hold also near the other; and from him taking away thy garments, and thou shouldest not retrench thy coat.
He will give the cheek to him striking him: he will be filled with reproach.
My back I gave to those smiting, and my cheeks to those tearing out the hair: and my face I hid not from shame and spittle.
They struck me, I was not pained; they beat me, I knew not: when shall I awake? I will add, I will yet seek it.
Bible Theasaurus
- Accepting (14 instances)