²⁰ For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

¹⁹ For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

¹⁷ For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

¹⁴ But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

³² For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.

⁴⁷ And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

¹⁴ 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.

¹⁵ But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

¹⁶ Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

¹¹ Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

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.

⁶⁷ Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,