1 Peter 2:21
For you were not called to this? For Christ also suffered on our behalf, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps,
Acts 14:22
confirming the souls of the disciples, calling on them to continue in the faith and that through much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of God.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
John 16:33
I have spoken these things to you so that you might have peace in Me. In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.
Romans 8:29
For whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers.
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;
1 Peter 4:1
Therefore, Christ having suffered for us in the flesh, also you arm yourselves with the same thought, that he suffering in the flesh has been made to rest from sin,
1 John 2:6
He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk even as He walked.
1 John 3:16
By this we have known the love of God, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
Psalm 85:13
Righteousness shall go before Him and shall set us in the way of His steps.
Matthew 10:38
And he who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.
Matthew 11:29
Take My yoke on you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest to your souls.
Mark 8:34-35
And calling near the crowd with His disciples, He said to them, Whoever will come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
Luke 9:23-25
And He said to all, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.
Luke 14:26-27
If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
Luke 24:26
Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?
John 13:15
For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.
Acts 9:16
For I will show him what great things he must suffer for My name's sake.
Acts 17:3
opening and setting forth that Christ must have suffered, and to have risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus whom I preach to you is Christ.
1 Corinthians 11:1
Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor.
Philippians 2:5
For let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
1 Thessalonians 3:3
so that no one should be drawn aside by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed to them.
1 Thessalonians 4:2
For we know what commands we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:12
Yea, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
Hebrews 2:10
For it became Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons into glory, to perfect the Captain of their salvation through sufferings.
1 Peter 1:20
indeed having been foreknown before the foundation of the world, but revealed in the last times for you,
1 Peter 2:24
He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that dying to sins, we might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
1 Peter 3:9
Never give back evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, giving blessing, knowing that you are called to this so that you might inherit blessing.
Revelation 12:11
And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony. And they did not love their soul until death.