23 Bible Verses about Suffering For Christ's Sake

And they departed from the council rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for his name.

For I will show him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake."

If we be sons, we are also heirs: the heirs, I mean, of God: and heirs annexed with Christ. If so be that we suffer together, that we may be glorified together.

As it is written, "For thy sake are we killed all day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain."

yet our hope is steadfast for you inasmuch as we know how, that as ye have your part in afflictions, so shall ye be partakers of consolation.

They are the ministers of Christ - I speak as a fool - I am more: In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prison more plenteously,

in knowing him, and the virtue of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his passions, that I might be conformable unto his death,

If we be patient, we shall also reign with him; If we deny him, he also shall deny us;

and chose rather to suffer adversity with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season,

Take, my brethren, the prophets: for an example of suffering adversity, and of long patience, which spake in the name of the Lord.

For what praise is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye take it patiently? But and if when ye do well, ye suffer wrong and take it patiently, then is there thanks with God.

Notwithstanding, happy are ye if ye suffer for righteousness' sake. Yea, and fear not though they seem terrible unto you, neither be troubled:

If any man suffer as a Christian man, let him not be ashamed: but let him glorify God on his behalf.

The God of all grace - which called you unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus - shall his own self, after ye have suffered a little affliction, make you perfect: shall settle, strengthen, and establish you.

Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall falsely say all manner of evil sayings against you for my sake.

and ye shall be hated of all men, for my name: but he that shall endureth unto the end, shall be saved.

He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake, shall find it.

And whosoever forsaketh houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake; the same shall receive a hundred fold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

We are fools for Christ's sake, and ye are wise through Christ: we are weak, and ye are strong. Ye are honorable, and we are despised.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus to be the Lord, and preach ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

For we which live, are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might appear in our mortal flesh.

Therefore have I delectation in infirmities, in rebukes, in need, in persecutions, in anguish, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

For unto you it is given, that not only ye should believe on Christ: but also suffer for his sake,