1 Peter 4:14
If you are denounced for the sake of Christ, you are blessed; for then the Spirit of glory and power, the Spirit of God himself, is resting on you.
Matthew 5:11
Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake;
1 Peter 3:16
see that you have a clean conscience, so that, for all their slander of you, these libellers of your good Christian behaviour may be ashamed.
Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man;
Matthew 5:16
So your light is to shine before men, that they may see the good you do and glorify your Father in heaven.
John 7:47-52
The Pharisees retorted, "Are you misled as well?
John 8:48
The Jews retorted, "Are we not right in saying you are a Samaritan, you are mad?"
John 9:28
Then they stormed at him: "You are his disciple, we are disciples of Moses!
John 9:34
They retorted, "And so you would teach us ??you, born in utter depravity!" Then they expelled him.
John 15:21
They will do all this to you on account of my name, because they know not him who sent me.
Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with jealousy; they began to contradict what Paul said and to abuse him.
Acts 18:6
But as they opposed and abused him, he shook out his garments in protest, saying, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am not responsible! After this I will go to the Gentiles."
2 Corinthians 12:10
It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.
Galatians 1:24
which made them praise God for me.
2 Thessalonians 1:10-12
when he comes to be glorified in his saints and marvelled at in all believers on that day (for our testimony has found confirmation in your lives).
Hebrews 11:26
considering obloquy with the messiah to be richer wealth than all Egypt's treasures ??for he had an eye to the Reward.
James 1:12
Blessed is he who endures under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the crown of life which is promised to all who love Him.
James 5:11
See, we call the stedfast happy; you have heard of the stedfastness of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord with him, seen that the Lord is very compassionate and pitiful.
1 Peter 2:12
Conduct yourselves properly before pagans; so that for all their slander of you as bad characters, they may come to glorify God when you are put upon your trial, by what they see of your good deeds.
1 Peter 3:14
Even supposing you have to suffer for the sake of what is right, still you are blessed. Have no fear of their threats, do not let that trouble you,
1 Peter 4:4-5
and it astonishes them that you will not plunge with them still into the same flood of profligacy. They abuse you,
2 Peter 2:2
and many will follow their immorality (thanks to them the true Way will be maligned);