1 Peter 2:20
For what credit [is it] if, [when you] sin and are beaten [for it], you endure? But if you endure [when you] do good and suffer [for it], this [finds] favor with God.
1 Peter 2:19
For this [finds] favor, if because of consciousness of God someone endures sorrows [while] suffering unjustly.
1 Peter 3:17
For [it is] better to suffer for doing good, {if God wills it}, than for doing evil.
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed [are] those who are persecuted because of righteousness, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:47
And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing that is remarkable? Do not the Gentiles also do the same?
Matthew 26:67
Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists, and they slapped [him],
Mark 14:65
And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to strike him with their fists, and to say to him "Prophesy!" And the officers received him with slaps in the face.
Luke 6:32
"And if you love those who love you, what kind of credit is [that] to you? For even sinners love those who love them!
Romans 12:1-2
Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies [as] a living sacrifice, holy [and] pleasing to God, [which is] your reasonable service.
1 Corinthians 4:11
Until the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty and poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless,
Ephesians 5:10
trying to learn what is well-pleasing to the Lord.
Philippians 4:18
But I have received everything [in full] and have an abundance; {I am well supplied} [because] I received from Epaphroditus {what you had sent}, a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.
1 Peter 3:14
But even if you might suffer for the sake of righteousness, [you are] blessed. And do not be afraid of their intimidation or be disturbed,
1 Peter 4:14-16
If you are reviled on account of the name of Christ, [you are] blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.