aActs 5:41; Rom. 5:3; 2 Cor. 12:10; Col. 1:11, 24; Heb. 10:34; James 1:2; 1 Pet. 4:13
bSee ch. 21:35
cPhil. 3:10, 11; See Acts 5:41
d[ch. 1:5-7; 5:1; Rom. 8:17, 18; Jude 24]
ePs. 89:51; Matt. 5:11
fJohn 15:21; [Heb. 11:26]
hch. 2:19, 20; 3:14, 17
i1 Thess. 4:11; 2 Thess. 3:11; 1 Tim. 5:13
j[See ver. 15 above]
kSee Acts 26:28
l[See ver. 14 above]

Matthew 5:12

12 aRejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for bso they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

1 Peter 4:13-16

13But rejoice cinsofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad dwhen his glory is revealed. 14 eIf you are insulted ffor 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 hlet none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or ias a meddler. 16Yet jif anyone suffers as a kChristian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God lin that name.
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