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For what glory [is it], if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer [for it], ye take it patiently, this [is] acceptable with God.
For this [is] thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.
For [it is] better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy [are ye]: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more [than others]? do not even the publicans so?
Blessed [are] they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great [is] your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy [are ye]; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
Yet if [any man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote [him] with the palms of their hands,
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things [which were sent] from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
¶ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as [in] a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
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