Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, [and] who hear your wisdom.
1 Peter 4:14 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) If you are insulted for the name of Messiah, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If you are censured and suffer abuse [because you bear] the name of Christ, blessed [are you–happy, fortunate, to be envied, with life-joy, and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of your outward condition], because the Spirit of glory, the Spirit of God, is resting upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified. [Isa. 11:2.] American Standard Version (1901) If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are ye; because the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you. Common English Bible If you are mocked because of Christ’s name, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory—indeed, the Spirit of God—rests on you. Catholic Public Domain Version If you are reproached for the name of Christ, you will be blessed, because that which is of the honor, glory, and power of God, and that which is of his Spirit, rests upon you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, [and] who hear your wisdom.
When the sons of the prophets who were at Yericho over against him saw him, they said, The spirit of Eliyahu does rest on Elisha. They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
Happy is he who has the God of Ya`akov for his help, whose hope is in the LORD, his God:
With which your enemies have mocked, LORD, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
The Spirit of the LORD 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 the LORD.
He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for the LORD has spoken it.
Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; don't you fear the reproach of men, neither be you dismayed at their insults.
*Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
Blessed 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.
But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.
Then the Judeans answered him, *Don't we say well that you are a Shomroni, and have a demon?*
They insulted him and said, *You are his talmid, but we are talmidim of Moshe.
They answered him, *You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?* They threw him out.
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Sha'ul, and blasphemed.
When 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!*
But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.*
They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Yeshua's name.
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Messiah's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Yeshua, that the life of Yeshua may also be revealed in our body.
Therefore we don't faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.
accounting the reproach of Messiah greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
Blessed 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.
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Iyov, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. *Don't fear what they fear, neither be troubled.*
having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good manner of life in Messiah.
But if one of you suffers for being a Messianic, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.