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.
Cross References
Galatians 4:18Nevertheless, it is good to be zealous if it serves a noble purpose--at any time, and not only when I am with you.
1 Peter 3:17For it is better, if it is God's will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
Treasury of Scripture
For what glory is it, if, when you be buffeted for your faults, you shall take it patiently? but if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
For.
1 Peter 3:14
But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
1 Peter 4:14-16
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified…
Matthew 5:47
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
buffeted.
Matthew 26:67
Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,
Mark 14:65
And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.
1 Corinthians 4:11
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
when.
1 Peter 2:19
For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
this.
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven…
Romans 12:1,2
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service…
Ephesians 5:10
Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
acceptable.
1 Peter 2:19
For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
Luke 6:32
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
