2 Timothy 3:12
And all that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution.
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.
Titus 2:12
teaching us, that denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in the present age;
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are they that are persecuted on account of righteousness; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 10:22-25
And you will be hated by all men on my account: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any one determines to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Matthew 23:34
For this reason, behold, I send you prophets and wise men and scribes; and some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;
Mark 10:30
who shall not receive a hundred-fold, now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.
Luke 14:26-27
If any one comes to me, and hates not his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his own life also, he can not be my disciple.
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 16:2
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.
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.
John 17:14
I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
1 Corinthians 15:19
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most miserable.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For the ground of our rejoicing is this: the testimony of our conscience that we have lived in the world more abundantly, indeed, for you in sincerity and godly purity, not in carnal wisdom, but in the grace of God.
1 Thessalonians 3:3-4
that no one be moved by these afflictions; for you yourselves know that we are appointed to this:
1 Timothy 2:2
for kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and gravity.
1 Timothy 3:16
And confessedly great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in flesh, justified in spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory.
1 Timothy 6:3
If any one teaches other things, and does not assent to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teaching which is according to godliness,
Titus 1:1
PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledgement of the truth, which is according to godliness;
Hebrews 11:32-38
And what further shall I say? For the time would fail me, were I to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah, of David also and Samuel, and of the prophets,
1 Peter 2:20-21
For what praise is due, if, when you are punished for your faults, you endure it patiently? But if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you endure it patiently, this is praiseworthy in the- sight of God.
1 Peter 3:14
But yet, if you even suffer for righteousness, happy are you. Yet fear not their terror, nor be troubled:
1 Peter 4:12-16
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.
1 Peter 5:9-10
Being firm in the faith, resist him, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.
2 Peter 3:11
Seeing, then, that all these things shall be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in all holy behavior, and godliness,
Revelation 1:9-10
I John, your brother and companion in the affliction, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the island called Patmos, on account of the word of God, and on account of the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 7:14
And I said to him: Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are they who have come out of great affliction, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 12:4
And his tail drew along the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bring forth, that, when she had brought forth, he might devour her child.
Revelation 12:7-10
And there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought,