 What credit is there if when you sin and are harshly treated, you endure it with patience? You deserve it. You ought to endure it with patience. There's no particular virtue in that. If you sinned and you're being punished because of something you did, then there's no virtue in taking it patiently. But on the other hand, if when you do what is right and suffer for it, you patiently endure it, here's the statement again, this is a grace.