Readings for Lent and Easter

Suffering as a Christian

¹² Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though some strange thing happened to you. ¹³ But rejoice insofar as you share in Christ’s sufferings, so that you may rejoice and be glad also in the revelation of His glory. ¹⁴ If you are reproached because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified. ¹⁵ Let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or even as a busybody. ¹⁶ Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God because of it.