23 Bible Verses about Suffering For Christ's Sake

Truly therefore they went rejoicing from the face of the council, that for his name they were deemed worthy to be dishonoured.

For I will show him what he must suffer for my name.

And if children, also heirs; truly heirs of God, and coheirs of Christ; if indeed we suffer together, that we may be also glorified together.

As has been written, That for thy sake we are killed the whole day; we were reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

And our hope firm for you, knowing, that as ye are participators of the sufferings, so also of the comfort.

Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often.

To know him, and the power of his rising up, and the mutual participation of his sufferings, being rendered conformable to his death;

If we endure, we shall also reign together: if we deny, he will also deny us:

Having chosen rather to be treated ill with the people of God, than to have the enjoyment of sin for a time;

Take a pattern of affliction, my brethren, and of longsuffering, the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord.

For what glory, if, sinning and being cuffed, ye endure? but if, doing good, and suffering, ye endure, this is grace with God.

But if ye also suffer for justice, happy are ye: be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled;

And if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him praise God in this portion.

And the God of all grace, having called us to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, may he put you in proper order, having suffered a little time, may he support you, make firm, lay the foundation.

Happy are ye, when they shall upbraid you, and drive you out, and say every evil word against you, lying, for my sake.

And ye shall be hated by all for my name: and he having remained to the end shall be saved.

He finding his soul shall lose it; and he having lost his soul for my sake shall find it.

And every one who lets go houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for the sake of my name, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life.

We foolish for Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we weak, and ye strong; ye honourable, and we dishonoured

For we proclaim not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus.

For we, the living, are always delivered to death for Jesus, that also the life of Jesus be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

Therefore am I contented in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities in expulsions, in extremities for Christ: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

For upon you was it conferred as a favor for Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him;