1 Peter 3:14
However, if you suffer in the cause of virtue, it is your happiness: and instead of being over-awed by their threats, and struck with concern,
1 Peter 2:19-20
but even to the morose. for it is a recommendation to the divine favour, to suffer unjust persecution
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are they who are persecuted upon the account of righteousness: for their's is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 10:28
fear not those who can only kill the body, but cannot hurt the soul: rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
Luke 6:22-23
blessed are you, when men shall hate you, discard you, reproach you, and treat you as infamous, for your attachment to the son of man.
John 14:1
Let not your heart be troubled: you trust in God, trust also in me.
John 14:27
I bid you farewell! I give you my last farewell; but I do not give it out of common formality: don't be concern'd for me, or apprehensive for your selves.
1 Peter 4:13-16
on the contrary, rejoice at the share you have of sufferings, as well as Christ: that you may likewise triumph, when he shall appear in his glory.
Matthew 10:18-22
and ye shall be brought before governors and kings upon my account, to bear testimony of me to them and the rest of the Gentiles.
Matthew 10:31
lay aside then your fears, ye are of a superior rank to those animals.
Matthew 10:39
he that would preserve his life, shall lose it: and he that exposeth his life for my sake, shall save it.
Matthew 16:25
for whosoever will save himself, shall be a looser: and whosoever shall suffer loss for my sake, shall be a gainer.
Matthew 19:29
and every one that abandons his family, his brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my sake, shall receive in that age an hundred times the value, and shall inherit hereafter everlasting life.
Mark 8:35
for he that would save his life, shall lose it; and he that would lose his life out of love to me and the gospel, he shall save it.
Mark 10:29
Jesus answered him, I declare unto you, there is not a man who has forsaken his house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, out of love to me and to the gospel,
Luke 12:4-5
As for you, my friends, be not afraid of those, who can kill the body, and after that can effect nothing more.
Acts 9:16
for I will make him see how much he must suffer for my name.
Acts 18:9-10
then the Lord said to Paul in a vision by night, "be not afraid, but speak, and be not silenc'd:
2 Corinthians 12:10
I take pleasure then in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am afflicted, then it is I have fortitude.
Philippians 1:29
for it is a favour bestowed upon you, that you not only believe on Christ, but suffer also for his sake,
James 1:12
happy is he that can stand the tryal: for when he has undergone the test, he shall receive that crown of life which the Lord has promised to those that love him.
1 Peter 3:6
such was Sarah, who show'd her obeysance to Abraham, by stiling him her Lord: and you will be stiled her children, if you imitate her conduct, and are not to be terrified out of your virtue.