1 Peter 2:19
For God approves a man if from a sense of duty he endures suffering unjustly inflicted??20 for what credit is there in your enduring being beaten for doing wrong? But if you endure suffering for doing what is right, you have God's approval.
Romans 13:5
You must obey them, therefore, not only to escape God's wrath, but as a matter of principle,
Matthew 5:10-12
"Blessed are those who have endured persecution for their uprightness, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them!
Luke 6:32
If you love only those who love you, what merit is there in that? For even godless people love those who love them.
John 15:21
But they will do all this to you on my account, because they do not understand him who sent me.
Acts 11:23
When he reached there and saw the favor God had shown them, he was delighted, and encouraged them all to be resolute and steadfast in their devotion to the Lord,
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by God's favor I have become what I am, and the favor he showed me has not gone for nothing, but I have worked harder than any of them, although it was not really I but the favor God showed me.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.
2 Corinthians 8:1
I must tell you, brothers, how the favor of God has been shown in the churches of Macedonia,
2 Timothy 1:12
This is why I am suffering as I am, but I am not ashamed of it, for I know whom I have trusted and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have intrusted to him for that Day.
1 Peter 3:14-17
Even if you should suffer for uprightness, you are blessed. But do not be afraid of them, nor be troubled,