Matthew 5:11

11 aBlessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely bon my account.

Matthew 10:25

25It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. cIf they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign
Greek lacks  will they malign
those of his household.


Luke 6:22

22Blessed are you when epeople hate you and when they fexclude you and revile you and gspurn your name as evil, hon account of the Son of Man!

Acts 24:5-6

5For we have found this man a plague, ione who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world and is a ringleader of jthe sect of the Nazarenes. 6 kHe even tried to profane the temple, but we seized him.
Some manuscripts add and we would have judged him according to our law. 7But the chief captain Lysias came and with great violence took him out of our hands, 8commanding his accusers to come before you.

Acts 24:13

13 mNeither can they prove to you what they now bring up against me.

Acts 25:7

7When he had arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him nthat they could not prove.

1 Peter 3:1

Wives and Husbands

1Likewise, wives, obe subject to your own husbands, so that peven if some do not obey the word, qthey may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

1 Peter 3:16

16 rhaving a good conscience, so that, swhen you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.

1 Peter 4:14-16

14 tIf you are insulted ufor the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory
Some manuscripts insert and of power
and of God rests upon you.
15But wlet none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or xas a meddler. 16Yet yif anyone suffers as a zChristian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God aain that name.
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