2 Timothy 3:12
But everyone who wants to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
Acts 14:22
reassuring the disciples and encouraging them to stand by the faith and reminding them that we have to undergo many hardships to get into the Kingdom of God.
Titus 2:12
training us to renounce godless ways and worldly passions, and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,
Matthew 5:10-12
"Blessed are those who have endured persecution for their uprightness, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to them!
Matthew 10:22-25
You will be hated by everybody on my account, but the man who holds out to the very end will be saved.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself and take his cross and follow me.
Matthew 23:34
This is why I am going to send you prophets, wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and hunt from one town to another;
Mark 10:30
but will receive now in this life a hundred times as much in homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and lands, though not without persecution??nd in the coming age eternal life.
Luke 14:26-27
"If anyone comes to me without hating his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and his very life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.
John 15:19-21
If you belonged to the world, the world would love what was its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have selected you from the world, that the world hates you.
John 16:2
They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.
John 16:33
I have told you all this, so that through me you may find peace. In the world you have trouble; but take courage! I have conquered the world."
John 17:14
I have given them your message, and the world has come to hate them, for they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
1 Corinthians 15:19
If we have centered our hopes on Christ in this life, and that is all, we are the most pitiable people in the world.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.
1 Thessalonians 3:3-4
and encourage you not to be led astray, any of you, in all these troubles. You know yourselves that this is what we must expect,
1 Timothy 2:2
for emperors and all who are in authority, so that we may live tranquil, quiet lives, with perfect piety and probity.
1 Timothy 3:16
No one can deny the profundity of the divine truth of our religion! "He was revealed in flesh, He was vindicated by the Spirit, He was seen by the angels, He was proclaimed among the heathen, He was believed in throughout the world, He was taken up into glory."
1 Timothy 6:3
Anyone who teaches different views and does not agree with the wholesome instruction which comes from our Lord Jesus Christ, and with religious teaching
Titus 1:1
Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to arouse faith in those whom God has chosen, and the comprehension of religious truth,
Hebrews 11:32-38
And why should I go on? For my time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,
1 Peter 3:14
Even if you should suffer for uprightness, you are blessed. But do not be afraid of them, nor be troubled,
1 Peter 4:12-16
Dear friends, do not be surprised that a test of fire is being applied to you, as though a strange thing were happening to you,
1 Peter 5:9-10
Resist him and be strong in the faith, for you know that your brotherhood all over the world is having the same experience of suffering.
2 Peter 3:11
If all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what holy and pious lives you ought to lead,
Revelation 1:9-10
I, John, your brother and companion in the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance that Jesus brings, found myself on the island called Patmos, for uttering God's message and testifying to Jesus.
Revelation 7:14
I said to him, "You know, my lord." He said to me, "They are the people who come through the great persecution, who have washed their robes white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 12:4
His tail swept away one third of the stars of heaven and flung them down upon the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth to a child in order to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Revelation 12:7-10
Then war broke out in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting with the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought