Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.
He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.
Then they left the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.
“Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.
For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.” So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household.
With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;
As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross.
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