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1 Peter 3 14
But even if you should suffer for righteousness, you are blessed. Do not fear them or be intimidated,
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1 Peter 3 16
Yet do this with gentleness and reverence, keeping a clear conscience, so that when you are accused, those who disparage your good conduct in Christ will be put to shame.
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Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you, insult you, and slander your name as evil because of the Son of Man.
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Matthew 5:11
“ You are blessed when they insult you and persecute you and falsely say every kind of evil against you because of me.
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James 1:12
Blessed is the one who endures trials, because when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.
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Psalms 146:5
Happy is the one whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
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John 15:21
But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they don’t know the one who sent me.
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1 Peter 2 19-1 Peter 2 20
For it brings favor if, because of a consciousness of God, someone endures grief from suffering unjustly.For what credit is there if when you do wrong and are beaten, you endure it? But when you do what is good and suffer, if you endure it, this brings favor with God.
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Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what Paul was saying, insulting him.
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2 Corinthians 12 10
So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and in difficulties, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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Psalms 89:51
how your enemies have ridiculed, LORD, how they have ridiculed every step of your anointed.
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James 5:11
See, we count as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job’s endurance and have seen the outcome that the Lord brought about— the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
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Isaiah 51:7
Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my instruction: do not fear disgrace by men, and do not be shattered by their taunts.
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John 9:34
“ You were born entirely in sin,” they replied,“ and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out.
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1 Peter 2 12
Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that when they slander you as evildoers, they will observe your good works and will glorify God on the day he visits.
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Numbers 11:25-26
Then the LORD descended in the cloud and spoke to him. He took some of the Spirit who was on Moses and placed the Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they never did it again.Two men had remained in the camp, one named Eldad and the other Medad; the Spirit rested on them— they were among those listed, but had not gone out to the tent— and they prophesied in the camp.
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Acts 18:6
When they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his clothes and told them,“ Your blood is on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”
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1 Kings 10 8
How happy are your men. How happy are these servants of yours, who always stand in your presence hearing your wisdom.
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John 9:28
They ridiculed him:“ You’re that man’s disciple, but we’re Moses’s disciples.
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Hebrews 11:26
For he considered reproach for the sake of Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, since he was looking ahead to the reward.
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Psalms 49:9
so that he may live forever and not see the Pit.
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Psalms 32:1-2
How joyful is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered!How joyful is a person whom the LORD does not charge with iniquity and in whose spirit is no deceit!
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2 Kings 2 15
When the sons of the prophets from Jericho who were observing saw him, they said,“ The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him and bowed down to the ground in front of him.
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2 Thessalonians 1 10-2 Thessalonians 1 12
on that day when he comes to be glorified by his saints and to be marveled at by all those who have believed, because our testimony among you was believed.In view of this, we always pray for you that our God will make you worthy of his calling, and by his power fulfill your every desire to do good and your work produced by faith,so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified by you, and you by him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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John 8:48
The Jews responded to him,“ Aren’t we right in saying that you’re a Samaritan and have a demon?”
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John 7:47-52
Then the Pharisees responded to them,“ Are you fooled too?Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in him?But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed.”Nicodemus— the one who came to him previously and who was one of them— said to them,“ Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”“ You aren’t from Galilee too, are you?” they replied.“ Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”[ The earliest mss do not include 7:53– 8:11.][
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Matthew 5:16
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.
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Galatians 1:24
And they glorified God because of me.
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1 Peter 4 4-1 Peter 4 5
They are surprised that you don’t join them in the same flood of wild living— and they slander you.They will give an account to the one who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.
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2 Peter 2 2
Many will follow their depraved ways, and the way of truth will be maligned because of them.
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Isaiah 11:2
The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him— a Spirit of wisdom and understanding, a Spirit of counsel and strength, a Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.
