If you do wrong and receive a blow for it, what credit is there in your bearing it patiently? But if when you do right and suffer for it you bear it patiently, this is an acceptable thing with God.

But even if you suffer for righteousness' sake, you are to be envied. So do not be alarmed by their threats, nor troubled;

For it is better that you should suffer for doing right, if such be God's will, than for doing evil;

But let not one of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evil-doer, or as a spy upon other people's business.