1 Peter 2:20
If you do wrong and receive a blow for it, what credit is there in your bearing it patiently? But if when you do right and suffer for it you bear it patiently, this is an acceptable thing with God.
1 Peter 2:19
For it is an acceptable thing with God, if, from a sense of duty to Him, a man patiently submits to wrong, when treated unjustly.
1 Peter 3:17
For it is better that you should suffer for doing right, if such be God's will, than for doing evil;
Matthew 5:10-12
"Blessed are those who have borne persecution in the cause of Righteousness, for to them belongs the Kingdom of the Heavens.
Matthew 5:47
And if you salute only your near relatives, what praise is due to you? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
Matthew 26:67
Then they spat in His face, and struck Him--some with the fist, some with the open hand--
Mark 14:65
Thereupon some began to spit on Him, and to blindfold Him, while striking Him with their fists and crying, "Prove that you are a prophet." The officers too struck Him with open hands as they took Him in charge.
Luke 6:32
"If you love those who love you, what credit is it to you? Why, even bad men love those who love them.
Romans 12:1-2
I plead with you therefore, brethren, by the compassionsof God, to present all your faculties to Him as a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to Him. This with you will be an act of reasonable worship.
1 Corinthians 4:11
To this very moment we endure both hunger and thirst, with scanty clothing and many a blow.
Ephesians 5:10
and learn in your own experiences what is fully pleasing to the Lord.
Philippians 4:18
I have enough of everything--and more than enough. My wants are fully satisfied now that I have received from the hands of Epaphroditus the generous gifts which you sent me--they are a fragrant odor, an acceptable sacrifice, truly pleasing to God.
1 Peter 3:14
But even if you suffer for righteousness' sake, you are to be envied. So do not be alarmed by their threats, nor troubled;
1 Peter 4:14-16
You are to be envied, if you are being reproached for bearing the name of Christ; for in that case the Spirit of glory-- even the Spirit of God--is resting upon you.