Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
Ye be
Happy
General references
Bible References
Ye be
1 Peter 2:19
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,
Reproached
1 Peter 4:4
As they think it strange, that you don't concur in the same profusion of luxury, they traduce 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.
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.
John 7:47
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.
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.
Happy
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.
On
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 Peter 2:2
many will follow their destructive maxims, and by their means christianity will be traduc'd.
General references
Hebrews 13:13
let us therefore decamp, and bear the reproach of following his example: