Acts 14:22
strengthening the hearts of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith, and warning them that it is through enduring many hardships that we must get into the kingdom of God.
John 16:33
I have told you these things, that you through union with me may have peace. In the world you have trouble, but be courageous! I have conquered the world."
2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, indeed, everyone who wants to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
Romans 8:17
and if children, then also heirs, heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ if in reality we share His sufferings, so that we may share His glory too.
1 Thessalonians 3:2-4
and so I sent my brother Timothy, God's minister in the preaching of the good news of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,
1 Peter 5:10
And God, the giver of every spiritual blessing, who through your union with Christ has called you to His eternal glory, after you have suffered a little while, will Himself make you perfect, firm, and strong,
Luke 22:28-29
Yet you have continued to stand by me in my trials;
John 3:5
Jesus answered, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever get into the kingdom of God, unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
Acts 11:23
When he reached there and saw the spiritual blessing God had given them, he was delighted, and continuously encouraged them all with hearty purpose to continue to be devoted to the Lord;
Acts 13:43
and after the congregation had broken up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism allied themselves with Paul and Barnabas, and they kept talking to them and urging them to continue to rely on the unmerited favor of God.
Acts 15:32
Now Judas and Silas, as they were prophets themselves, in a lengthy talk encouraged and strengthened the brothers.
Acts 15:41
He journeyed on through Syria and Cilicia and continued to strengthen the churches.
Acts 18:23
After spending some time there, he started out again, and by a definite schedule traveled all over Galatia and Phrygia, imparting new strength to all the disciples.
Colossians 1:23
if indeed you continue well grounded and firm in faith and never shift from the hope inspired by the good news you heard, which has been preached all over the world, and of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.
1 Thessalonians 3:13
so that He may strengthen your hearts to be faultless in purity in the sight of God, when our Lord Jesus comes back with all His consecrated ones.
Matthew 10:21-22
One brother will turn another over to death, and a father his child, and children will take a stand against their parents, and will have them put to death.
Matthew 10:38
and nobody is worthy of me who does not take up his cross and follow me.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to His disciples: "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put his cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me.
Matthew 19:24
Again, I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to get into the kingdom of heaven."
Mark 9:47
And if your eye makes you do wrong, tear it out. You might better go into the kingdom of God with only one eye than keep both your eyes and be thrown into the pit,
Mark 10:24-25
His disciples were startled at this statement. But Jesus again said to them as He continued the topic, "My children, how hard it is to get into the kingdom of God!
Mark 10:30
who will not receive now in this life a hundred times as much in houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, but along with them persecution, and in the world to come eternal life.
Luke 24:26
Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and thus to enter into His glory?"
John 8:31-32
So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, "If you live in accordance with what I teach, you are really my disciples,
John 12:25-26
Whoever loves his lower life will lose the higher, but whoever hates his lower life in this world preserves the higher for eternal life.
John 15:4-6
You must remain in union with me and I will remain in union with you. Just as no branch by itself can bear fruit unless it remains united to the vine, so you cannot unless you remain in union with me.
John 15:9-10
I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must remain in my love.
John 15:20
Remember what I once told you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too.
John 16:1-2
"I have told you these things to keep you from falling over stumbling blocks.
Acts 6:7
So God's message continued to spread, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem continued to grow rapidly; a large number, even of priests, continued to surrender to the faith.
Acts 9:16
For I am going to show him how great are the sufferings he must endure for my name's sake."
1 Corinthians 1:8
and to the very end He will guarantee that you are vindicated at the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 1:8
So you must never be ashamed of me His prisoner, but suffer for the good news in fellowship with me and by the power of God.
2 Timothy 2:11-12
This message is to be trusted: "If we indeed have died with Him, we will live with Him too.
1 Peter 4:12-16
Dearly beloved, do not be astonished that a test by fire is coming upon you, as though something strange were happening to you,
2 Peter 1:11
for it is in this way that to you will be generously granted a triumphant admittance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:3
Dearly beloved, while I was doing my best to begin writing you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write and urge you to carry on a vigorous defense of the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's people.
Jude 1:20-21
But you, dearly beloved, must continue to build yourselves up on the groundwork of your most holy faith and to pray in the Holy Spirit;
Revelation 1:9
I, John, your brother and companion with you in the trouble, the kingdom, and the patient endurance which Jesus gives, found myself on the island called Patmos, for preaching God's message and testifying to Jesus.
Revelation 2:10
Do not be so afraid of what you are to suffer. See! The devil is going to throw some of you into prison to be tested there and for ten days to suffer pressing troubles. Each one of you must prove to be faithful, even if you have to die, and I will give you the crown of life.
Revelation 7:14
I answered him, "You know, my lord." He said to me: "These are the people who are coming through the great persecution, who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.