1 Peter 4:14
Good News Translation
Happy are you if you are insulted because you are Christ's followers; this means that the glorious Spirit, the Spirit of God, is resting on you.

New Revised Standard Version
If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the spirit of glory, which is the Spirit of God, is resting on you.

Contemporary English Version
Count it a blessing when you suffer for being a Christian. This shows that God's glorious Spirit is with you.

New American Bible
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If you be reproached for the name of Christ, you shall be blessed: for that which is of the honour, glory and power of God, and that which is his Spirit resteth upon you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If you be reproached for the name of Christ, you shall be blessed: for that which is of the honour, glory and power of God, and that which is his Spirit resteth upon you.

ye be.

1 Peter 2:19,20 For this is thankworthy: if, for conscience towards God, a man endure sorrows, suffering wrongfully. . . .

1 Peter 3:14,16 But if also you suffer any thing for justice' sake, blessed are ye. And be not afraid of their fear: and be not troubled. . . .

reproached.

1 Peter 4:4,5 Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them into the same confusion of riotousness: speaking evil of you. . . .

Psalm 49:9 And shall still live unto the end.

Psalm 89:51 Wherewith thy enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the change of thy anointed.

Isaiah 51:7 Hearken to me, you that know what is just, my people who have my law in your heart: fear ye not the reproach of men, and be not afraid of their blasphemies.

Matthew 5:11 Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake:

Luke 6:22 Blessed shall you be when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

John 7:47-52 The Pharisees therefore answered them: Are you also seduced? . . .

John 8:48 The Jews therefore answered and said to him: Do not we say well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil?

John 9:28,34 They reviled him therefore and said: Be thou his disciple; but we are the disciples of Moses. . . .

2 Corinthians 12:10 For which cause I please myself in my infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ. For when I am weak, then am I powerful.

happy.

1 Kings 10:8 Blessed are thy men, and blessed are thy servants, who stand before thee always, and hear thy wisdom.

Psalm 32:1,2 To David himself, understanding. Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. . . .

Psalm 146:5 Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his helper, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for, when he hath been proved, he shall receive the crown of life which God hath promised to them that love him.

James 5:11 Behold, we account them blessed who have endured. You have heard of the patience of Job and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is merciful and compassionate.

for.

Numbers 11:25,26 And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spoke to him, taking away of the spirit that was in Moses, and giving to the seventy men. And when the spirit had rested on them they prophesied, nor did they cease afterwards. . . .

2 Kings 2:15 And the sons of the prophets, at Jericho, who were over against him, seeing it, said: The spirit of Elias hath rested upon Eliseus. And coming to meet him, they worshipped him, falling to the ground.

Isaiah 11:2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: the spirit of wisdom, and of understanding, the spirit of counsel, and of fortitude, the spirit of knowledge, and of godliness.

on.

Acts 13:45 And the Jews, seeing the multitudes, were filled with envy and contradicted those things which were said by Paul, blaspheming.

Acts 18:6 But they gainsaying and blaspheming, he shook his garments and said to them: Your blood be upon your own heads: I am clean. From henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

2 Peter 2:2 And many shall follow their riotousness, through whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

but.

1 Peter 2:12 Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Peter 3:16 But with modesty and fear, having a good conscience: that whereas they speak evil of you, they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

Matthew 5:16 So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Galatians 1:24 And they glorified God in me.

2 Thessalonians 1:10-12 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be made wonderful in all them who have believed; because our testimony was believed upon you in that day. . . .

Context
Suffering as Christians
13But if you partake of the sufferings of Christ, rejoice that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. 14If you be reproached for the name of Christ, you shall be blessed: for that which is of the honour, glory and power of God, and that which is his Spirit resteth upon you. 15But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or a railer or coveter of other men's things.…
Cross References
Isaiah 25:8
He shall cast death down headlong for ever: and the Lord God shall wipe away tears from every face, and the reproach of his people he shall take away from off the whole earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.

Matthew 5:11
Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake:

Luke 6:22
Blessed shall you be when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

John 15:21
But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake: because they know not him that sent me.

Acts 5:41
And they indeed went from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus.

Acts 28:22
But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that it is every where contradicted.

2 Corinthians 4:10
Always bearing about in our body the mortification of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be made manifest in our bodies.

2 Corinthians 4:16
For which cause we faint not: but though our outward man is corrupted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Hebrews 11:26
Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasure of the Egyptians. For he looked unto the reward.

James 1:12
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for, when he hath been proved, he shall receive the crown of life which God hath promised to them that love him.

1 Peter 4:16
But, if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed: but let him glorify God in that name.

1 Peter 4:13
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