Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Love to man » Exemplified
And every day, devoting themselves [to meeting] with one purpose in the temple [courts] and breaking bread from house [to house], they were eating [their] food with joy and simplicity of heart,
sometimes being publicly exposed both to insults and to afflictions, and sometimes becoming sharers with those who were treated in this way. For you both sympathized with the prisoners and put up with the seizure of your belongings with joy [because you] knew that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession.
Reproach » Suffered
If you are reviled on account of the name of Christ, [you are] blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and revile [you] and spurn your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.
considering {reproach endured for the sake of Christ} greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
For to this [end] we labor and suffer reproach, because we have put our hope in [the] living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.
sometimes being publicly exposed both to insults and to afflictions, and sometimes becoming sharers with those who were treated in this way.
So we must go out to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.
Reviling and reproaching » Saints » Endure
For to this [end] we labor and suffer reproach, because we have put our hope in [the] living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.
sometimes being publicly exposed both to insults and to afflictions, and sometimes becoming sharers with those who were treated in this way.
Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Reproach suffered
If you are reviled on account of the name of Christ, [you are] blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and revile [you] and spurn your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.
considering {reproach endured for the sake of Christ} greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
For to this [end] we labor and suffer reproach, because we have put our hope in [the] living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.
sometimes being publicly exposed both to insults and to afflictions, and sometimes becoming sharers with those who were treated in this way.
So we must go out to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.