1 Peter 4:16
Good News Translation
However, if you suffer because you are a Christian, don't be ashamed of it, but thank God that you bear Christ's name.

New Revised Standard Version
Yet if any of you suffers as a Christian, do not consider it a disgrace, but glorify God because you bear this name.

Contemporary English Version
Don't be ashamed to suffer for being a Christian. Praise God that you belong to him.

New American Bible
But whoever is made to suffer as a Christian should not be ashamed but glorify God because of the name.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But, if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed: but let him glorify God in that name.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

as.

1 Peter 4:19 Wherefore let them also that suffer according to the will of God commend their souls in good deeds to the faithful Creator.

1 Peter 3:17,18 For it is better doing well (if such be the will of God) to suffer than doing ill. . . .

Acts 11:26 And they conversed there in the church a whole year: and they taught a great multitude, so that at Antioch the disciples were first named Christians.

Acts 26:28 And Agrippa said to Paul: In a little thou persuadest me to become a Christian.

Ephesians 3:13-15 Wherefore I pray you not to faint at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. . . .

let him not.

Isaiah 50:7 The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded: therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be confounded.

Isaiah 54:4 Fear not, for thou shalt not be confounded, nor blush: for thou shalt not be put to shame, because thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt remember no more the reproach of thy widowhood.

Philippians 1:20 According to my expectation and hope; that in nothing I shall be confounded: but with all confidence, as always, so now also, shall Christ be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death.

2 Timothy 1:12 For which cause, I also suffer these things: but I am not ashamed. For I know whom I have believed and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him, against that day.

Hebrews 12:2,3 Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God. . . .

but.

Isaiah 24:15 Therefore glorify ye the Lord in instruction: the name of the Lord God of Israel in the islands of the sea.

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.

Romans 5:2-5 By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein we stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God. . . .

Philippians 1:29 For unto you it is given for Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him:

James 1:2-4 My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations: . . .

Context
Suffering as Christians
15But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or a railer or coveter of other men's things. 16But, if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed: but let him glorify God in that name. 17For the time is, that judgment should begin at the house of God. And if at first at us, what shall be the end of them that believe not the gospel of God?…
Cross References
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 11:26
And they conversed there in the church a whole year: and they taught a great multitude, so that at Antioch the disciples were first named Christians.

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.

Philippians 1:20
According to my expectation and hope; that in nothing I shall be confounded: but with all confidence, as always, so now also, shall Christ be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death.

James 2:7
Do not they blaspheme the good name that is invoked upon you?

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 4:11
If any man speak, let him speak, as the words of God. If any minister, let him do it, as of the power which God administereth: that in all things God may be honoured through Jesus Christ: to whom is glory and empire for ever and ever. Amen.

1 Peter 4:14
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.

1 Peter 4:15
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