1 Thessalonians 3:3
that no one be moved by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this:
Acts 9:16
For I will show him what great things he must suffer for my name.
Acts 14:22
strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, that through many afflictions we mast enter the kingdom of God.
Acts 21:13
But Paul answered: What do you effect by weeping, and breaking my heart? For I am ready, not only to be bound, but also to suffer death in Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Matthew 10:16-18
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be, therefore, wise as serpents, and guileless as doves.
Matthew 24:9-10
Then they will deliver you up to affliction, and kill you; and you will be hated by all nations on my account.
Luke 21:12
But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues, and into prisons, after being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.
John 15:19-21
If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
John 16:33
These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have affliction, but be of good courage; I have overcome the world.
Romans 5:3
And not only so, but we rejoice in afflictions also; because we know that affliction produces patience,
1 Corinthians 15:58
Therefore, my be loved brethren, be firm, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
2 Thessalonians 1:4
so that we ourselves glory in you, among the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure;
2 Timothy 1:8
Be not, therefore, ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner: but jointly suffer evil in the gospel according to the power of God,
John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues; in deed, the time is coming, when he that kills you, will think that he is offering service to God.
Acts 2:25
For David speaks with reference to him: I saw the Lord always in my presence: for he is at my right hand, that I should not be moved.
Acts 20:23-24
except that in every city the Holy Spirit testifies to me, saying, That bonds and afflictions await me.
Acts 21:11
and he came to us, and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own hands and feet, and said: Thus says the Holy Spirit; the Jews that are in Jerusalem will so bind the man to whom this girdle belongs; and they will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
Romans 8:35-37
Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? Shall affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?
1 Corinthians 4:9
For I think that God has appointed us the apostles, to the lowest place, as under sentence of death; for we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
Ephesians 3:13
For which cause I beseech you not to grow faint on account of my afflictions for you, which are your glory.
Philippians 1:28
and in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.
Colossians 1:23
if you continue in the faith, founded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.
1 Thessalonians 5:9
for God has not appointed us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 Timothy 3:11-12
my persecutions, my sufferings which came upon me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; you well know what persecutions I endured: and yet out of them all, the Lord delivered me.
1 Peter 2:21
To this, indeed, you have been called; because even Christ suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his footsteps.
1 Peter 4:12-14
Beloved, be not amazed at the fiery trial that has come on you to try you, as if some strange thing had happened to you.
Revelation 2:10
Fear none of the things which you are about to suffer; behold, the devil will throw some of you into prison, that you may be tried: and you shall have affliction ten days. Be faithful till death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Revelation 2:13
I know your works, and where you dwell, even where the throne of Satan is: and yet you hold fast my name, and have not denied my faith, even in those days in which Antipas was my faithful witness, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.