²⁰ If you endure when you are beaten for doing wrong, what credit is that? But if you endure when you do good and suffer for it, this is a commendable thing before God.^(A)

¹⁹ For it is a commendable thing if, being aware of God, a person endures pain while suffering unjustly.

¹⁷ For it is better to suffer for doing good, if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil.

¹⁴ But even if you do suffer for doing what is right,^[a] you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear,^[b] and do not be intimidated,^(A)

³² “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them.

⁴⁷ And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the gentiles do the same?

¹⁴ If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the spirit of glory,^[a] which is the Spirit of God,^[b] is resting on you.^{[c](A) 15} But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, a criminal, or even as a mischief maker.^{[d](B) 16} Yet if any of you suffers as a Christian, do not consider it a disgrace, but glorify God because you bear this name.^[e]

¹¹ To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are naked and beaten and homeless,^(A)

⁶⁵ Some began to spit on him, to blindfold him, and to strike him, saying to him, “Prophesy!” The guards also took him and beat him.^(A)

⁶⁷ Then they spat in his face and struck him, and some slapped him,^(A)