1 Thessalonians 1:6
Moreover, you began to follow the pattern I set you, and the Lord's also, receiving the word with joy in the Holy Spirit, although amid severe persecution.
Acts 13:52
As for the disciples, they were continually filled with joy, and with the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 4:16
I beg you then to imitate my example.
1 Corinthians 11:1
Be imitators of me, as I am an imitator of Christ.
Galatians 5:22
But the harvest-fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, fidelity, gentleness, and self-control;
Acts 17:5-10
But the Jews, moved with jealousy, called to their aid certain ill-favored and idle fellows, formed a mob, and began to set the town in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
2 Thessalonians 3:9
Not that I have no right to such support; it was simply to give you an example for you to imitate.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples. "If any man wishes to come after me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and follow me.
Mark 10:29-30
"I tell you solemnly," said Jesus, "that there is no man who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or lands, for my sake and the gospel's,
John 8:12
Once more Jesus addressed them. "I am the light of the world," he said; "He who follows me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the Light of life."
John 13:13-15
"Do you understand what I have been doing to you? You call me 'Teacher' and 'Master', and you say well, for such I am.
John 14:16-18
"and I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Comforter to be with you forever, the Spirit of Truth.
Acts 5:41
So they left Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been deemed worthy to suffer disgrace for the sake of the Name;
Acts 9:31
Now throughout the whole of Judea, Galilee, and Samaria the Church continued to enjoy peace and to be spiritually built up. It was increasing in members also, as it kept walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 5:3-5
And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,
Romans 8:16-18
For his Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are children of God;
Romans 15:13
Now the God of all hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may be overflowing with hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.
2 Corinthians 8:1-2
Now, brothers, I wish to tell you about the grace of God which has been manifest in the churches of Macedonia.
2 Corinthians 8:5
And this not as I had expected, but in accordance with the will of God, they first gave themselves to God and to me.
Ephesians 5:1
Learn then to imitate God as his beloved children,
Philippians 3:17
Brothers, be comrades in imitating me, and study those whose life and walk is according to the pattern I have set you.
1 Thessalonians 2:13-14
For this reason also I am giving continual thanks to God, because when you heard from me the spoken word of God, you received it not as the word of men, but as the word of God (which in truth it is), who himself is effectually at work in you believe.
1 Thessalonians 3:2-4
I sent Timothy, my brother and God's fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, to strengthen you and to hearten you in your faith.
2 Thessalonians 1:4
So that I myself am boasting about you among the churches of God, boasting of the stedfastness and faith which you are displaying in all the troubles and afflictions which you are enduring.
Hebrews 10:34
For you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you did take joyfully the confiscation of your goods; conscious that you had for yourselves greater, even lasting possessions.
1 Peter 1:6
Exult in this, though now for a brief moment, if need be, you have suffered many hardships.
1 Peter 1:8
Him you love, though you have never seen him; in him you ever believe, though even now you see him not, and you are rejoicing with joy unspeakable and full of glory,
1 Peter 3:13
Yet who will harm you if you become zealous for the good?
3 John 1:11
Do not imitate what is evil, beloved, but that which is good. He who does good is of God; he who does evil has never gazed on God.