Philippians 1:29
Because to you it has been given in the cause of Christ not only to have faith in him, but to undergo pain on his account:
Matthew 5:11-12
Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.
Matthew 16:17
And Jesus made answer and said to him, A blessing on you, Simon Bar-jonah: because this knowledge has not come to you from flesh and blood, but from my Father in heaven.
John 1:12-13
To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:
John 6:44-45
No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.
Acts 5:41
So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.
Acts 13:39
And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.
Acts 14:22
Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.
Acts 14:27
And when they came there, and had got the church together, they gave them an account of all the things which God had done through them, and how he had made open a door of faith to the Gentiles.
Romans 5:3
And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;
Ephesians 2:8
Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:
Colossians 2:12
Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.
James 1:2
Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort;
James 1:17-18
Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
1 Peter 4:13
But be glad that you are given a part in the pains of Christ; so that at the revelation of his glory you may have great joy.