Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

Bible References

For

1 Peter 3:14
But yet, if you even suffer for righteousness, happy are you. Yet fear not their terror, nor be troubled:
1 Peter 4:14
If you are reproached on account of Christ, happy are you: for the glorious Spirit of God rests upon you. On their part he is reviled, but on your part he is glorified:
Matthew 5:47
And if you salute your brethren only, in what do you excel? Do not even the publicans so?

Buffeted

Matthew 26:67
Then did they spit in his face, and strike him with their fists; some struck him with the open hand,
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: Give a response. And the attendants struck him with their open hands.
1 Corinthians 4:11
Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and are maltreated, and wander about without a home,

When

1 Peter 2:19
For this is praiseworthy, if any one, on account of conscience to ward God, endure sorrows, suffering unjustly.