1 Peter 2:21
And it is to this you were called; because Christ also suffered on your behalf, leaving you an example so that you should follow in His steps.
Acts 14:22
Everywhere they strengthened the disciples by encouraging them to hold fast to the faith, and warned them saying, "It is through many afflictions that we must make our way into the Kingdom of God."
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If any one desires to follow me, let him renounce self and take up his cross, and so be my follower.
John 16:33
"I have spoken all this to you in order that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction. But keep up your courage: *I* have won the victory over the world."
Romans 8:29
For those whom He has known beforehand He has also pre-destined to bear the likeness of His Son, that He might be the Eldest in a vast family of brothers;
1 Peter 3:18
because Christ also once for all died for sins, the innocent One for the guilty many, in order to bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,
1 Peter 4:1
Since, then, Christ has suffered in the flesh, you also must arm yourselves with a determination to do the same--because he who has suffered in the flesh has done with sin--
1 John 2:6
The man who professes to be continuing in Him is himself also bound to live as He lived.
1 John 3:16
We know what love is--through Christ's having laid down His life on our behalf; and in the same way we ought to lay down our lives for our brother men.
Matthew 10:38
and any one who does not take up his cross and follow where I lead is not worthy of me.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Mark 8:34-35
Then calling to Him the crowd and also His disciples, He said to them, "If any one is desirous of following me, let him ignore self and take up his cross, and so be my follower.
Luke 9:23-25
And He said to all, "If any one is desirous of following me, let him ignore self and take up his cross day by day, and so be my follower.
Luke 14:26-27
"If any one is coming to me who does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes and his own life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.
Luke 24:26
Was there not a necessity for the Christ thus to suffer, and then enter into His glory?"
John 13:15
For I have set you an example in order that you may do what I have done to you.
Acts 9:16
For I will let him know the great sufferings which he must pass through for My sake."
Acts 17:3
which he clearly explained, pointing out that it had been necessary for the Christ to suffer and rise again from the dead, and insisting, "The Jesus whom I am announcing to you is the Christ."
1 Corinthians 11:1
Be imitators of me, in so far as I in turn am an imitator of Christ.
Ephesians 5:2
And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up to death on our behalf as an offering and sacrifice to God, yielding a fragrant odor.
Philippians 2:5
Let the same disposition be in you which was in Christ Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 3:3
that none of you might be unnerved by your present trials: for you yourselves know that they are our appointed lot.
1 Thessalonians 4:2
For you know the commands which we laid upon you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:12
And indeed every one who is determined to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
Hebrews 2:10
For it was fitting that He for whom, and through whom, all things exist, after He had brought many sons to glory, should perfect by suffering the Prince Leader who had saved them.
1 Peter 1:20
He was pre-destined indeed to this work, even before the creation of the world, but has been plainly manifested in these last days for the sake of you who, through Him,
1 Peter 2:24
The burden of our sins He Himself carried in His own body to the Cross and bore it there, so that we, having died so far as our sins are concerned, may live righteous lives. By His wounds yours have been healed.
1 Peter 3:9
not requiting evil with evil nor abuse with abuse, but, on the contrary, giving a blessing in return, because a blessing is what you have been called by God to inherit.
Revelation 12:11
But they have gained the victory over him because of the blood of the Lamb and of the testimony which they have borne, and because they held their lives cheap and did not shrink even from death.