Today, I was reading in 1 Corinthians 1 and read a sermon that Charles Spurgeon preached on verse 6.  Here’s an excerpt that I thought was noteworthy to share:

Then, again, if you can bear the taunts of wicked men without returning them, that will be a good way of confirming religion. When I have entered into controversy with some men, and have been betrayed into heat of temper, I could have bitten my fingers off that I should have done so. If you can keep your temper when men laugh at you, and if, when they revile you, you do not return it, you will confirm the truth. They will say, “There is something in that man’s religion, otherwise he could not so keep his temper.” You have read of James Haldane. Once, when unconverted, he threw a ship’s tumbler at the head of a person who had insulted him; but when he was regenerated, on another occasion of insult, simply said, “I would resent it, but I have learned to forgive injuries and overlook insults.” Men were obliged to say of him, “There is something in the religion which can bring such a lion as that down, and make him such a lamb.” Thus you will confirm the witness of Christ, if you quietly endure persecution. If you can bear the laugh and jeer of wicked men patiently, you will confirm the truth.