22 Bible Verses about Suffering For Christ's Sake

So they went out from before the council, glad that they had been thought worthy to bear disgrace for the sake of Jesus,

For I am going to show him what he will have to endure for my sake."

and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too.

As the Scripture says, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long, We are treated like sheep to be slaughtered."

My hopes for you are unshaken. For I know that just as surely as you share my sufferings, just so surely you will share my comfort.

If they are Christian workers?? am talking like a madman!?? am a better one! with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, vastly worse beatings, and in frequent danger of death.

I want to know him in the power of resurrection, and to share his sufferings and even his death,

If we endure, we will reign with him! If we disown him, he will also disown us!

for he preferred sharing the hardships of God's people to a short-lived enjoyment of sin,

As an example, brothers, of ill-treatment patiently endured, take the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord.

Even if you should suffer for uprightness, you are blessed. But do not be afraid of them, nor be troubled,

but if a man suffers for being a Christian, he must not be ashamed of it, but must do honor to God through that name.

And God, the giver of all mercy, 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, steadfast, and strong.

"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and falsely say everything bad of you, on my account.

You will be hated by everybody on my account, but the man who holds out to the very end will be saved.

Whoever gains his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will gain it.

And anyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or land for my sake will receive many times as much, and share eternal life.

We are made fools of, for the sake of Christ, while you are men of sense, through being united with him. We are weak, you are strong. You are distinguished, we are despised.

For it is not myself but Christ Jesus that I am proclaiming as Lord; I am only a slave of yours for Jesus' sake.

For every day I live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be visible in my mortal nature.

That is why I am pleased with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties, when they are endured for Christ's sake, for it is when I am weak that I am strong.

For you have been granted the privilege not only of trusting in Christ but of suffering for him.