1 Peter 4:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Let him not be ashamed;— There is no shame in suffering, unless it be for some crime: to be a Christian, and to suffer for being so, is an honour. Grotius's remark on the words is this: "If a man was not to be ashamed to die with Phocion, how much less to die for Christ!" It was sometimes deemed a sufficient accusation of the primitive Christians, "that they were the disciples of Jesus;" and upon that account alone many of them suffered death: but what a glorious thing was it thus to die, when their bitterest adversaries had no crime to lay to their charge, nothing to object against them, but that they were Christians!