1 Corinthians 15:19
if our expectations as christians all terminate in this life, we of all men are most to be pitied.
2 Timothy 3:12
and those who will live like Christians, shall generally suffer persecution.
Matthew 10:21-25
then the brother shall betray his brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against their parents, and be the instruments of their death.
Matthew 24:9
then shall they deliver you up to torments, and to death: and ye shall be hated by all nations upon my account.
Luke 8:14
the ground over-run with thorns denotes such as have embraced the doctrine, but are so immerst in the business, enjoyments, and pleasures of life, as not to improve it to any real advantage.
Luke 21:34
set a guard upon yourselves, that ye be not stupified by surfeiting and drunkenness, or by the disquietudes of this life, and so that day come upon you with a surprize.
John 16:2
they shall expel you out of the synagogues: yea, the time is coming, when it will be thought an agreeable sacrifice to God for any one to take away your lives.
John 16:33
these things I have appriz'd you of, that ye might repose your confidence in me. the world shall give you trouble: but take courage, I have overcome the world.
Acts 14:22
encouraging the disciples, exhorting them to persevere in the faith, representing that it is thro' much tribulation that we must enter into the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
for it seems as if God had exposed us apostles the last upon the stage, as persons appointed to death. for we are made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.
1 Corinthians 6:3-4
don't you know that we shall be judges of angels? much more then of the affairs of life?
Ephesians 1:12-13
that we should celebrate his glory, who were the first that plac'd our hopes in Christ.
1 Thessalonians 1:3
never forgetting the effects of your faith, your charitable offices, and the constancy of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ; of which God is our witness.
2 Timothy 1:12
yet I am not ashamed, for I know in whom I have confided, and I am persuaded he is able to keep what I have committed to him against that day.
2 Timothy 2:4
he that enters into the service, disengages himself from civil affairs, that he may be acceptable to his officer.
1 Peter 1:21
it is by him that you believe in God, who has raised him from the dead, and invested him with glory, that your faith and your hope might be in God.
Revelation 14:13
Then I heard a voice from heaven, saying to me, "write, blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; yes, from henceforth, saith the spirit, they shall rest from their labours; and the recompence of their labours shall follow them."