Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
Bible References
This
Luke 8:14
As for the seed that fell among thorns, that means people who hear but who go and get choked with worries and money and the pleasures of life, so that they never ripen.
Luke 21:34
Take heed to yourselves in case your hearts get overpowered by dissipation and drunkenness and worldly anxieties, and so that Day catches you suddenly like a trap.
1 Corinthians 6:3
Do you not know we are to manage angels, let alone mundane issues?
2 Timothy 2:4
No soldier gets entangled in civil pursuits; his aim is to satisfy his commander.
Hope
Ephesians 1:12
to make us redound to the praise of his glory by being the first to put our hope in Christ.
1 Thessalonians 1:3
as we recall your active faith and labour of love and patient hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
2 Timothy 1:12
and this is why I am suffering. Still, I am not ashamed of it; I know whom I have trusted and I am certain he is able to keep what I have put into his hands till the great Day.
1 Peter 1:21
it is by him that you believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory; and thus your faith means hope in God.
Of all
1 Corinthians 4:9
For it seems to me that God means us apostles to come in at the very end, like the doomed gladiators in the arena! We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men!
Matthew 10:21
Brother will betray brother to death, the father will betray his child, children will rise against their parents and put them to death,
Matthew 24:9
Then men will hand you over to suffer affliction, and they will kill you; you will be hated by all the Gentiles on account of my name.
John 16:2
They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.
Acts 14:22
strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold by the faith, and telling them that "we have to get into the Realm of God through many a trouble."
2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, and all who want to live the religious life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
Revelation 14:13
Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: ??'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth! Even so, it is the voice of the Spirit ??blessed in resting from their toils; for what they have done goes with them.'"