23 Bible Verses about Suffering For Christ's Sake

So they left Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been deemed worthy to suffer disgrace for the sake of the Name;

"for I am going to show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my name."

and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; but to share his glory, we must now be sharing his sufferings.

Even as it is written. For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

My hope for you is firm; for I know that as you are comrades in my sufferings, so also are you comrades in my comfort.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often.

I long to know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, by sharing the likeness of his death;

If we endure suffering, we shall also reign with him. If we disown him, he too will disown us.

choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.

Take, my brothers, for an example the suffering and the patience of the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

For what credit is it if, when you are struck for a fault, you take it patiently? But if when you are doing well and suffer for it, you always take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

But even if you should suffer in behalf of righteousness, you are happy. Do not be afraid of their terror, neither be troubled.

But if any man is suffering as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him ever glorify God in this Name.

But the God of all grace, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share his eternal glory, will, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

"Blessed are you when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my name's sake.

"You will be hated by all men because of my name; and he who endures to the end shall be saved.

"He who has saved his life shall lose it; and he who has lost his life for my sake shall find it.

"And every one who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for my sake, shall many times as much, and fall heir to eternal life.

For Christ's sake we are fools, but you are quite philosophic in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong; you are honorable, but we are outcast.

It is not myself that I proclaim, but Christ Jesus as Master, and myself that I proclaim, and myself your slave for Jesus' sake.

For, alive though I am, I am always given over to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may shine forth in my dying flesh.

Most gladly therefore will I boast rather of my weakness, that over me like a tent may be pitched the power of Christ. That is why I rejoice in weakness, in ill-treatment, in troubles, in persecutions and calamities for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

For it has been granted you in Christ's behalf, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake,