1 Thessalonians 3:3

Paul Sends Timothy To Thessalonica

² and sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith; ³ that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task. ⁴ For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

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Acts 9:16

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake."

Acts 14:22

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions 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 wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Matthew 24:9-10

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.

Luke 21:12

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you 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, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

John 16:33

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."

Romans 5:3

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

2 Thessalonians 1:4

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

2 Timothy 1:8

Therefore don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

Psalm 112:6

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

John 16:2

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

Acts 2:25

For David says concerning him, 'I saw the Lord always before my face, For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

Acts 20:23-24

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

Acts 21:11

Coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit: 'So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

Romans 8:35-37

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

1 Corinthians 4:9

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

Ephesians 3:13

Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

Philippians 1:28

and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

Colossians 1:23

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

1 Thessalonians 5:9

For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

2 Timothy 3:11-12

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.

1 Peter 2:21

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

1 Peter 4:12-14

Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

Revelation 2:10

Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for 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 dwell, where Satan's throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn't deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.