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“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
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Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days,
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Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe.” Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
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Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.
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One of the experts in the law answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us also.”
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He will be delivered over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him and spit on him;
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And they said many other insulting things to him.
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One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”
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Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are this fellow’s disciple! We are disciples of Moses!
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How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
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Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.
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If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
