Twentieth_Century(i)
20 What credit can you claim when, after doing wrong, you take your punishment for it patiently? But, on the other hand, if, after doing right, you take your sufferings patiently, that does win the approval of God.
21 For it was to this that you were called! For Christ, too, suffered--on your behalf--and left you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
22 He 'never sinned, nor was anything deceitful ever heard from his lips.'
23 He was abused, but he did not answer with abuse; he suffered, but he did not threaten; he entrusted himself to him whose judgments are just.