1 Peter 2:20
Where is the credit in standing punishment for having done wrong? No, if you stand suffering for having done right, that is what God counts a merit.
1 Peter 3:17
For it is better to suffer for doing right (if that should be the will of God) than for doing wrong.
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of goodness! the Realm of heaven is theirs.
Matthew 5:47
and if you only salute your friends, what is special about that? do not the very pagans do as much?
Matthew 26:67
Then they spat in his face and buffeted him, some of them cuffing him
Mark 14:65
and some of them started to spit on him and to blindfold him and buffet him, asking him, "Prophesy." The attendants treated him to cuffs and slaps.
Luke 6:32
If you love only those who love you, what credit is that to you? Why, even sinful men love those who love them.
Romans 12:1-2
Well then, my brothers, I appeal to you by all the mercy of God to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, consecrated and acceptable to God; that is your cult, a spiritual rite.
1 Corinthians 4:11
To this very hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and knocked about, we are waifs,
Ephesians 5:10
verifying what pleases the Lord.
Philippians 4:18
Your debt to me is fully paid and more than paid! I am amply supplied with what you have sent by Epaphroditus, a fragrant perfume, the sort of sacrifice that God approves and welcomes.
1 Peter 3:14
Even supposing you have to suffer for the sake of what is right, still you are blessed. Have no fear of their threats, do not let that trouble you,
1 Peter 4:14-16
If you are denounced for the sake of Christ, you are blessed; for then the Spirit of glory and power, the Spirit of God himself, is resting on you.