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 even if you should suffer in behalf of righteousness, you are happy. Do not be afraid of their terror, neither be troubled.
1 Peter 4:14
If you are being reproached for the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the spirit of glory and of God is resting upon you.
Matthew 5:47
"Even the tax-gatherers do that, do they not? And if you show courtesy to your brother only, what are you doing more than others? Even the Gentiles do that, do they not?

Buffeted

Matthew 26:67
Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and some struck him with the palms of their hands, and cried.
Mark 14:65
Then they all condemn him to be worthy of death. Some began to spit on him, and to blindfold him while striking him and saying, "Prophesy." The officers, too, received him into custody with blows.
1 Corinthians 4:11
Even to his very hour we are enduring hunger and thirst and nakedness and blows.

When

1 Peter 2:19
For it is an acceptable thing to God, if from a sense of duty to him, a man endures a wrong, even suffering unjustly.