For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering undeservedly.

For what praise is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you endure it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you endure it patiently, this is favorable with God.

But even if you should suffer because of righteousness, you are blessed. And do not be afraid of their terror, nor be troubled.

having a good conscience, that when they speak against you as evildoers, those who falsely accuse your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.

In this regard, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same overflow of dissipation, blaspheming.

They will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

that he might yet live forever and never see the pit.

with which Your enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, with which they have reproached the heel of Your Anointed.

Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is My Law; do not fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their revilings.

Blessed are you when they shall revile and persecute you, and shall say every evil word against you falsely because of Me.

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude you, and revile you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man.

Then the Pharisees answered them, Have you not also been led astray?

But this crowd that does not know the Law is accursed.

Does our Law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he does?

Then the Jews answered and said to Him, Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?

Then they reviled him and said, You are His disciple, but we are Moses' disciples.

They answered and said to him, You were born completely in sins, and do you teach us? And they drove him out.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Happy are your men and happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!

i1 [A Psalm of David. Maschil.] i0 par Blessed is the man whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Blessed is the man to whom Jehovah does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

Blessed is he who has the Mighty God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Jehovah his God,

Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

Indeed we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the endurance of Job and seen the outcome brought about by the Lord; that the Lord is very kind and merciful.

And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and laid upon the seventy men of the elders; and it happened, when the Spirit rested upon them, that they prophesied, although they did not do so again.

But two men had remained in the camp: the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad. And the Spirit rested upon them. Now they were among those enrolled, but had not gone out to the tent; and they prophesied in the camp.

And when the sons of the prophets from Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah rests upon Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed to the ground before him.

And the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy; and contradicting and blaspheming, they opposed the things spoken by Paul.

But when they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook his garments and said to them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.

And many will follow their destructive ways, through whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

having your behavior honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.

having a good conscience, that when they speak against you as evildoers, those who falsely accuse your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed.

Let your light so shine before men, so that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in Heaven.

And they glorified God in me.

when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you is believed.

that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.