What qualities does this precept require?

Love of righteousness; constancy and firmness in virtue; fortitude and patience when one is subjected to calamity or danger for refusing to betray truth and virtue, after the pattern of the three youths before the furnace: “our God whom we serve is able to deliver us… but if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods” (Dan 3:17–18); and of the apostles, who left the council “rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the Name” (Act 5:41; see Q477, Q478).