"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and falsely say everything bad of you, on my account.

But Jesus said, "Do not tell him not to do so, for there is no one who will use my name to do a mighty act, and be able soon after to abuse me.

bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.

And why not say, as people abuse us for saying and charge us with saying, "Let us do evil that good may come out of it"? Such people will be condemned as they deserve!

we have worked with our hands for a living. When people abuse us, we bless them, when they persecute us, we put up with it,

though I once used to abuse, persecute, and insult him. But he had mercy on me, because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief,

is a conceited, ignorant person, with a morbid craving for speculations and arguments which result only in envy, quarreling, abuse, base suspicions,

to abuse nobody, to be peaceable and reasonable, showing perfect gentleness to everyone.

not returning evil for evil, or abuse for abuse. You must bless people instead. It is for this that you were called??o obtain blessing.

and keep your conscience clear, so that those who abuse your upright Christian conduct may be made ashamed of their slanders.

They are amazed that you no longer join them in plunging into the flood of dissipation, and they abuse you for it;

These men, like unreasoning animals, mere creatures of instinct created to be caught and killed, abuse what they do not understand and will be destroyed like animals,