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.
reproached -- (reviled) Refers to insults or mockery experienced because of the believer’s association with Christ (see Matthew 5:11-12). Christians living throughout the Graeco-Roman world in the first century likely experienced discrimination and varying degrees of ostracism because of their faith. - FSB