23 Bible Verses about Suffering For Christ's Sake

But the Apostles left the Council, rejoicing that they had been thought worthy to suffer disgrace for that Name;

I will myself show him all that he has to suffer for my Name."

And if children, then heirs-heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ, since we share Christ's sufferings in order that we may also share his Glory.

Scripture says-'For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.'

And our hope for you remains unshaken. We know that, as you are sharing our sufferings, you will also share our consolation.

Are they 'Servants of Christ'? Though it is madness to talk like this, I am more so than they! I have had more of toil, more of imprisonment! I have been flogged times without number. I have been often at death's door.

Then indeed I shall know Christ, and the power of his resurrection, and all that it means to share his sufferings,

If we continue to endure, we shall also share his throne. If we should ever disown him, he, too, will disown us.

He preferred sharing the hardships of God's People to enjoying the short-lived pleasures of sin.

Brothers, as an example of the patient endurance of suffering, take the Prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

What credit can you claim when, after doing wrong, you take your punishment for it patiently? But, on the other hand, if, after doing right, you take your sufferings patiently, that does win the approval of God.

Even if you should suffer for righteousness, count yourselves blessed! 'Do not let men terrify you, or allow yourselves to be dismayed.'

But, if a man suffers as a Christian, do not let him be ashamed of it; let him bring honour to God even though he bears that name.

God, from whom all help comes, and who called you, by your union with Christ, into his eternal glory, will, when you have suffered for a little while, himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.

Blessed are you when people taunt you, and persecute you, and say everything evil about you--untruly, and on my account.

And you will be hated by every one on account of my Name. Yet the man that endures to the end shall be saved.

He who has found his life will lose it, while he who, for my sake, has lost his life shall find it.

Every one who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or land, on account of my Name, will receive many times as much, and will 'gain Immortal Life.'

We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools,' but you, by your union with Christ, are men of discernment. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are despised.

(For it is not ourselves that we proclaim, but Christ Jesus, as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.)

Indeed, we who still live are continually being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the Life also of Jesus may be exhibited in our mortal nature.

That is why I delight in weakness, ill-treatment, hardship, persecution, and difficulties, when borne for Christ. For, when I am weak, then it is that I am strong!

For, on behalf of Christ, you have had the privilege granted you, not only of trusting in him, but also of suffering on his behalf.