1 Peter 4:14
If you are suffering abuse because you bear the name of Christ, you are happy, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.
Matthew 5:11-12
"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and keep on falsely telling all sorts of evil against you for my sake.
Acts 5:41-42
So they went out from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer disgrace for Jesus' name;
1 Timothy 1:15
It is a saying to be trusted and deserves our fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; and I am the foremost of them.
Hebrews 12:2
keeping our eyes on Jesus, the perfect leader and example of faith, who, instead of the joy which lay before Him, endured the cross with no regard for its shame, and since has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
1 Peter 5:6
Therefore humbly submit to God's strong hand, so that at the proper time He may exalt you.