1 Peter 2:21
Indeed, it was to this kind of living that you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow His footsteps.
Acts 14:22
strengthening the hearts of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith, and warning them that it is through enduring many hardships that we must get into the kingdom of God.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to His disciples: "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put his cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me.
John 16:33
I have told you these things, that you through union with me may have peace. In the world you have trouble, but be courageous! I have conquered the world."
Romans 8:29
For those on whom He set His heart beforehand He marked off as His own to be made like His Son, that He might be the eldest of many brothers;
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ Himself, once for all, died for our sins, the Innocent for the guilty to bring us to God, being put to death in physical form but made alive in the Spirit,
1 Peter 4:1
So then, since Christ has suffered in our physical form, you too must arm yourselves with the same determination. For whoever suffers in his physical form has done with sin,
1 John 2:6
Whoever claims, "I am always in union with Him," ought to live as He lived.
1 John 3:16
We know what love is from the fact that He laid down His life for us; and so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
Matthew 10:38
and nobody is worthy of me who does not take up his cross and follow me.
Matthew 11:29
Put on my yoke, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls,
Mark 8:34-35
Then He called the people to Him along with His disciples, and said to them, "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say, 'No' to self, put the cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me.
Luke 9:23-25
Then He said to them all, "If anyone chooses to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put the cross on his shoulders daily, and continue to follow me.
Luke 14:26-27
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.
Luke 24:26
Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and thus to enter into His glory?"
John 13:15
For I have set you an example, in order that you too may practice what I have done to you.
Acts 9:16
For I am going to show him how great are the sufferings he must endure for my name's sake."
Acts 17:3
explaining them and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead, and said, "This very Jesus whom I proclaim to you is the Christ."
1 Corinthians 11:1
You must follow my example, just as I myself am following Christ's.
Ephesians 5:2
and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Philippians 2:5
Keep on fostering the same disposition that Christ Jesus had.
1 Thessalonians 3:3
so that none of you might be deceived amid these difficulties. For you knew yourselves that this is our appointed lot,
1 Thessalonians 4:2
For you are aware of the instructions which we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, indeed, everyone who wants to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
Hebrews 2:10
For it was appropriate for Him, who is the Final Goal and the First Cause of the universe, in bringing many children to glory, to make the Leader in their salvation perfect through the process of sufferings.
1 Peter 1:20
who was foreordained for it before the foundation of the world but was brought out to public view at the end of the ages, for the sake of you
1 Peter 2:24
He bore our sins in His own body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to uprightness. By His wounds you have been healed,
1 Peter 3:9
never returning evil for evil or abuse for abuse, but blessing instead, because it was for this that you were called, to obtain the blessing of heirs.
Revelation 12:11
But they have conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the message to which they bore testimony, because they did not cling to life but courted death.