1 Peter 4:14

Those insulted for Christ's name are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on them. It declares that reproach for Christ is actually a mark of God's favor.

Cross-references · 31

• 1 Pet 3:14But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”
• Luke 6:22Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.
• Matt 5:11“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
• Jas 1:12Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.
• 1 Pet 3:16having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.
• Ps 146:5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:
• 2 Cor 12:10Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
• 1 Pet 2:19–20For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.
• John 15:21But all these things will they do to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
• Ps 89:51With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
• 2 Kgs 2:15When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho over against him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
• Isa 51:7“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law: Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
• 2 Th 1:10–12when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that day.
• John 9:34They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” They threw him out.
• Matt 5:16Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
• Heb 11:26accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
• Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
• Jas 5:11Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
• 1 Pet 2:12having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
• John 7:47–52The Pharisees therefore answered them, “You aren’t also led astray, are you?
• John 9:28They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
• John 8:48Then the Jews answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”
• Gal 1:24And they glorified God in me.
• Num 11:25–26Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
• Acts 18:6When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”
• Ps 32:1–2By David. A contemplative psalm. Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
• Ps 49:9that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.
• 2 Pet 2:2Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
• 1 Kgs 10:8Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.
• Isa 11:2Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.
• 1 Pet 4:4–5They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

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