8 Bible Verses about Accepting Beatings

Let the righteous rather smite me friendly, and reprove me: so will I take it as though he had poured oil on my head; it shall not hurt my head. Yea, I will pray yet for their wickedness.

For ye suffer even if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour, if a man take, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

For what praise is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye take it patiently? But and if when ye do well, ye suffer wrong and take it patiently, then is there thanks with God.

But I say to you, That ye resist not wrong. But whosoever give thee a blow on thy right cheek, turn to him the other.

And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek, offer also the other. And him that taketh away thy gown, forbid not to take thy coat also.

He offereth his cheek to the smiter; he will be content with reproves.

But I offer my back unto the smiters, and my cheeks to the nippers. I turn not my face from shame and spitting,

"They wounded me," shalt thou say, "but it hath not hurt me. They smote me, but I felt it not. When I am well awakened, I will go to the drink again."