1 Peter 4:14
if you suffer indignities in the cause of Christ, you are happy: for the glorious spirit of God rests upon you.
Matthew 5:11
Blessed shall you be when men shall revile and persecute you, and falsely charge you with all manner of evil for your attachment to me.
1 Peter 3:16
always maintaining a good conscience, that instead of inveighing against you as evildoers, they may be cover'd with confusion, who traduce your virtuous behaviour as Christians.
Luke 6:22
blessed are you, when men shall hate you, discard you, reproach you, and treat you as infamous, for your attachment to the son of man.
Matthew 5:16
even so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father who is in heaven.
John 7:47-52
upon which the Pharisees answered, are ye also seduced?
John 8:48
The Jews answered, and said to him, are we not in the right to say, that you are a Samaritan, and are really mad?
John 9:28
then they reviled him, and said, thou art his disciple; but we are Moses disciples.
John 9:34
they answered, you were a vicious fellow from your very birth, and do you pretend to preach to us? and then they excommunicated him.
John 15:21
but all these things will they do unto you, out of hatred to my name, because they know not him that sent me.
Acts 13:45
when the Jews saw such a crowd, they were fill'd with resentment, and oppos'd what Paul had advanc'd, even to blasphemy.
Acts 18:6
but as they oppos'd him with invectives, he shook his garment, and said, "you your selves be answerable for your own destruction, I am clear: and for the future I shall address my self to the Gentiles."
2 Corinthians 12:10
I take pleasure then in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am afflicted, then it is I have fortitude.
Galatians 1:24
and they glorified God upon my account.
2 Thessalonians 1:10-12
and come to be glorified by his saints, and to be the object of admiration to all who believed, that the testimony we gave you, would be justified in that day.
Hebrews 11:26
esteeming the sufferings of Israel greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he had an eye to the reward.
James 1:12
happy is he that can stand the tryal: for when he has undergone the test, he shall receive that crown of life which the Lord has promised to those that love him.
James 5:11
we pronounce those happy, who have so endur'd. you have heard of the constancy of Job, you know with what success he was crown'd by the Lord, who is all mercy and compassion.
1 Peter 2:12
souls. Let your behaviour among the Gentiles be virtuous, that instead of inveighing against you as vicious, they may observe your honest behaviour,
1 Peter 2:19-20
but even to the morose. for it is a recommendation to the divine favour, to suffer unjust persecution
1 Peter 3:14
However, if you suffer in the cause of virtue, it is your happiness: and instead of being over-awed by their threats, and struck with concern,
1 Peter 4:4-5
As they think it strange, that you don't concur in the same profusion of luxury, they traduce you.
2 Peter 2:2
many will follow their destructive maxims, and by their means christianity will be traduc'd.