1 Thessalonians 3:3
so that no one should be drawn aside by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed to them.
Acts 9:16
For I will show him what great things he must suffer for My name's sake.
Acts 14:22
confirming the souls of the disciples, calling on them to continue in the faith and that through much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of God.
Acts 21:13
Then Paul answered, What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
Matthew 10:16-18
Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves.
Matthew 24:9-10
Then they will deliver you up to be afflicted and will kill you. And you will be hated of all nations for My name's sake.
Luke 21:12
But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and rulers 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
I have spoken these things to you so that you might have peace in Me. In the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world.
Romans 5:3
And not only this, but we glory in afflictions also, knowing that afflictions work out patience,
1 Corinthians 15:58
So that, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not without fruit in the Lord.
2 Thessalonians 1:4
so much so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations which you endure.
2 Timothy 1:8
Therefore you should not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner. But be partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God,
Psalm 112:6
Surely he shall not be moved forever; the righteous shall be remembered forever.
John 16:2
They shall put you out of the synagogue. But an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think that he bears God service.
Acts 2:25
For David speaks concerning Him, "I foresaw the Lord always before me, because He is at my right hand, that I should not be moved.
Acts 20:23-24
except that the Holy Spirit witnesses in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.
Acts 21:11
And coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, and binding his hands and feet, he said, The Holy Spirit says these things: So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man whose belt this is, and will deliver him into the hands of the nations.
Romans 8:35-37
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
1 Corinthians 4:9
For I think that God has set forth us last, the apostles, as it were appointed to death; for we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.
Ephesians 3:13
For this reason I desire that you faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
Philippians 1:28
and terrified in nothing by your adversaries. For this is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
Colossians 1:23
if indeed you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard and which was proclaimed in all the creation under Heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister,
1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 Timothy 3:11-12
persecutions, afflictions, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra. What persecutions I endured! But the Lord delivered me out of all.
1 Peter 2:21
For you were not called to this? For Christ also suffered on our behalf, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps,
1 Peter 4:12-14
Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which is to try you, as though a strange thing happened to you,
Revelation 2:10
Do not at all fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the Devil will cast some of you into prison, so that you may be tried. And you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Revelation 2:13
I know your works, and where you live, even where Satan's seat is . And you hold fast My name and have not denied My faith, even in those days in which Antipas was My faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.