If you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: Peter sets forth the startling proposition that instead of seeing persecution as a deprivation, they should see it as a blessing and as an indication of a good, healthy, spiritual state. The blessedness is that "the spirit of glory" or "the Spirit of God" resided with them. Isaiah 11:2 uses a similar expression.