Praised or Insulted?

Praise does not always follow good nor insult evil.

“Praise makes good men better and bad men worse.”
Thomas Fuller (1654–1734), English physician, writer and adage collector.

Jesus put it this way: Luke 5:22-26
“Blessed are you when people hate you,
when they exclude you and insult you
and reject your name as evil,
because of the Son of Man.
“Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven.
For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets. . . .
Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you,
for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.”