14. 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.
15. For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.
16. But if one of you suffers for being a Messianic, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
17. For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?