'Insult' in the Bible
"How blessed are you whenever people insult you, persecute you, and say all sorts of evil things against you falsely because of me!
"How blessed are you whenever people hate you, avoid you, insult you, and slander you because of the Son of Man!
Bless those who curse you, and pray for those who insult you.
Then one of the experts in the Law told him, "Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us, too."
But when they began to oppose him and insult him, he shook out his clothes in protest and told them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the gentiles."
The men standing near him asked, "Do you mean to insult God's high priest?"
For even the Messiah did not please himself. Instead, as it is written, "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me."
They are not to insult anyone or be argumentative. Instead, they are to be gentle and perfectly courteous to everyone.
Do not pay others back evil for evil or insult for insult. Instead, keep blessing them, because you were called to inherit a blessing.
They insult you now because they are surprised that you are no longer joining them in the same excesses of wild living.
These people, like irrational animals, are mere creatures of instinct that are born to be caught and killed. They insult what they don't understand, and like animals they, too, will be destroyed,