2 Corinthians 12:10
Most gladly, therefore, will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Wherefore I am well pleased with infirmities, with injuries, with necessities, with persecutions, with distresses for Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Romans 5:3
And not only [this], but we rejoice also in afflictions, knowing that affliction works out patience,
2 Corinthians 13:4
for though he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by the power of God; and we also are weak in him, but live with him by the power of God in you.
2 Corinthians 6:4
but in every thing commending ourselves as ministers of God, in great patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude you from their company, and reproach and cast out your names as evil, on account of the Son of man.
2 Corinthians 12:9
And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you; for power is perfected in weakness.
Philippians 2:17-18
But if I am even poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and congratulate you all;
James 1:2
Account it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various trials,
John 15:21
But all these things they will do to you, on my account, because they know not him that sent me.
Acts 5:41
They went therefore from the presence of the Sanhedrim, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer shame for the name of [Christ];
Romans 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall affliction or distress, persecution or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword?
1 Corinthians 4:10
For we are foolish for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; and you are glorious, but we are infamous.
2 Corinthians 1:4
who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those in every affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God,
2 Corinthians 4:5
For we preach not ourselves but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
2 Corinthians 4:8-11
being afflicted in every thing but not distressed, being perplexed but not in despair,
2 Corinthians 4:17
For the light affliction which is for a moment, works out for us more abundantly an eternal weight of glory,
2 Corinthians 5:15
and he died for all, that those who live should no more live for themselves but for him that died for them and rose again.
2 Corinthians 7:4
I have great boldness towards you, and great glorying on your account; I am full of comfort, I have a super-abounding joy in all our afflictions.
2 Corinthians 10:18
for not he that commends himself is approved, but he whom the Lord commends.
2 Corinthians 11:23-30
Are they ministers of Christ? I speak foolishly, I am more; in labors most abundant, in stripes above measure, in imprisonments most abundant, in deaths often;
2 Corinthians 13:9
For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong; and we desire this, your perfection.
Ephesians 6:10
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.
Philippians 1:29
because it was given to you in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him but also to suffer for him,
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in sufferings for you, and supply the deficiencies of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church,
2 Thessalonians 1:4
so that we boast of you in the churches of God, of your patience and faith, in all your persecutions and the afflictions which you endure,
1 Peter 1:6-7
In which you rejoice, though now for a little while if need be made sad by manifold trials,
1 Peter 4:13-14
but as you partake of the sufferings of Christ rejoice, that you may also rejoice exulting at the revelation of his glory.
Revelation 2:3
and you have patience, and suffered for my name, and did not faint.