For what praise is due, if, when you are punished for your faults, you endure it patiently? But if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you endure it patiently, this is praiseworthy in the- sight of God.

But yet, if you even suffer for righteousness, happy are you. Yet fear not their terror, nor be troubled:

For it is better, if such be the will of God, that you suffer for doing good, than for doing evil.

for no one of you should suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

But if any one suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God on this account.

Wherefore, let those also who suffer according to the will of God, by doing good, commit their souls to him as to a faithful Creator.