How is it to your credit if you are beaten for doing wrong and you endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.
For if anyone endures the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God, this is to be commended.
For it is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear what they fear; do not be shaken.”
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
Test and prove what pleases the Lord.
And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even Gentiles do the same?
Then they spit in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him
Then some of them began to spit on Him. They blindfolded Him, struck Him with their fists, and said to Him, “Prophesy!”
To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing
I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acce