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1 Peter 3 14
But in fact, if you happen to suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. But do not be terrified of them or be shaken.
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1 Peter 3 16
Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.
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Luke 6:22
“ Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject you as evil on account of the Son of Man!
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Matthew 5:11
“ Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things about you falsely on account of me.
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James 1:12
Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has proven to be genuine, he will receive the crown of life that God promised to those who love him.
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Psalms 146:5
How blessed is the one whose helper 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 do not know the one who sent me.
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1 Peter 2 19-1 Peter 2 20
For this finds God’s favor, if because of conscience toward God someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly.For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God.
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Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they began to contradict what Paul was saying by reviling him.
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2 Corinthians 12 10
Therefore I am content with weaknesses, with insults, with troubles, with persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.
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Psalms 89:51
Your enemies, O LORD, hurl insults; they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps.
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James 5:11
Think of how we regard as blessed those who have endured. You have heard of Job’s endurance and you have seen the Lord’s purpose, that the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
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Isaiah 51:7
Listen to me, you who know what is right, you people who are aware of my law! Don’t be afraid of the insults of men; don’t be discouraged because of their abuse!
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John 9:34
They replied,“ You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?” So they threw him out.
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1 Peter 2 12
and maintain good conduct among the non- Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.
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Numbers 11:25-26
And the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to them, and he took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but did not do so again.But two men remained in the camp; one’s name was Eldad, and the other’s name was Medad. And the spirit rested on them.( Now they were among those in the registration, but had not gone to the tabernacle.) So they prophesied in the camp.
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Acts 18:6
When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them,“ Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!”
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1 Kings 10 8
Your attendants, who stand before you at all times and hear your wise sayings, are truly happy!
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John 9:28
They heaped insults on him, saying,“ You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses!
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Hebrews 11:26
He regarded abuse suffered for Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on the reward.
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Psalms 49:9
so that he might continue to live forever and not experience death.
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Psalms 32:1-2
How blessed is the one whose rebellious acts are forgiven, whose sin is pardoned!How blessed is the one whose wrongdoing the LORD does not punish, in whose spirit there is no deceit.
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2 Kings 2 15
When the members of the prophetic guild in Jericho, who were standing at a distance, saw him do this, they said,“ The spirit that energized Elijah rests upon Elisha.” They went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.
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2 Thessalonians 1 10-2 Thessalonians 1 12
when he comes to be glorified among his saints and admired on that day among all who have believed– and you did in fact believe our testimony.And in this regard we pray for you always, that our God will make you worthy of his calling and fulfill by his power your every desire for goodness and every work of faith,that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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John 8:48
The Judeans replied,“ Aren’t we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?”
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John 7:47-52
Then the Pharisees answered,“ You haven’t been deceived too, have you?None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they?But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!”Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before and who was one of the rulers, said,“ Our law doesn’t condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?”They replied,“ You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet comes from Galilee!”[[
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Matthew 5:16
In the same way, let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good deeds and give honor to your Father in heaven.
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Galatians 1:24
So they glorified God because of me.
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1 Peter 4 4-1 Peter 4 5
So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.They will face a reckoning before Jesus Christ who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.
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2 Peter 2 2
And many will follow their debauched lifestyles. Because of these false teachers, the way of truth will be slandered.
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Isaiah 11:2
The LORD’s spirit will rest on him– a spirit that gives extraordinary wisdom, a spirit that provides the ability to execute plans, a spirit that produces absolute loyalty to the LORD.
