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.

General references

Bible References

For

1 Peter 3:14
But even if you should suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. "Never be afraid of their threats, and never get upset.
1 Peter 4:14
If you are insulted because of the name of the Messiah, you are blessed, for the glorious Spirit of God is resting on you.
Matthew 5:47
And if you greet only your relatives, that's no great thing you're doing, is it? Even the unbelievers do the same, don't they?

Buffeted

Matthew 26:67
Then they spit in his face and hit him. Some slapped him,
Mark 14:65
Some of them began to spit on him. They blindfolded him and kept hitting him with their fists and telling him, "Prophesy!" Even the servants took him and slapped him around.
1 Corinthians 4:11
We are hungry, thirsty, dressed in rags, brutally treated, and homeless, right up to the present.

When

1 Peter 2:19
For it is a fine thing if, when moved by your conscience to please God, you suffer patiently when wronged.

General references

Deuteronomy 25:2
If the guilty person deserves a beating, the judge will make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of lashes fit for his crime.

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