2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, and all who purpose to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
Acts 14:22
Everywhere they strengthened the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold to the faith. "It is through many tribulations," they said, "that we must enter into the kingdom of God."
Titus 2:12
And schooling us to renounce impiety and evil passions, And to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age;
Matthew 5:10-12
"Blessed are those who have been persecuted in the cause of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 10:22-25
"You will be hated by all men because of my name; and he who endures to the end shall be saved.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples. "If any man wishes to come after me, let him renounce self, take up his cross, and follow me.
Matthew 23:34
"For this cause, behold! I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and pursue from city to city;
Mark 10:30
but shall receive a hundred times as much, now in this present world, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, lands??nd persecutions with them??nd in the world to come eternal life.
Luke 14:26-27
"If any one comes to me and does not hate father and his mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters, yes, and his own very life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.
John 15:19-21
"If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for that reason the world hates you.
John 16:2
"They will excommunicate you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will suppose that he is doing God's service.
John 16:33
I have said all this to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be courageous; 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 mankind most pitiable.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For this is my proud boast, the testimony of my conscience, that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that I have conducted myself in the world, and above all in my relations with you.
1 Thessalonians 3:3-4
So that no one should be shaken by these troubles??or you know well that we are appointed to troubles.
1 Timothy 2:2
for kings and all who are in authority, in order that we may lead a tranquil and peaceful life in all godliness an gravity.
1 Timothy 3:16
Yes! without contradiction, great is the mystery of godliness!
1 Timothy 6:3
If any one teaches heterodoxy, and refuses to consent to the wholesome words of the Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teachings of religion,
Titus 1:1
To Titus, my true son in a common faith, from Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and to the knowledge of the truth which goes with piety;
Hebrews 11:32-38
And what more shall I say? for time would fail me to tell of Gideon, of Barak, of Samson, and of Jeptha; of David and Samuel and the prophets,
1 Peter 2:20-21
For what credit is it if, when you are struck for a fault, you take it patiently? But if when you are doing well and suffer for it, you always take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
1 Peter 3:14
But even if you should suffer in behalf of righteousness, you are happy. Do not be afraid of their terror, neither be troubled.
1 Peter 4:12-16
Do not think it strange, beloved, that a fiery ordeal has come to test you, as though some surprising thing had befallen you.
1 Peter 5:9-10
Resist him, standing firm in the faith, knowing well that the same afflictions are being accomplished in your brothers that are in the world.
2 Peter 3:11
Now since all things are in the process of dissolution, what kind of men ought you to be, in all holy living and piety;
Revelation 1:9-10
I, John, who am your brother and who share with you in the woes and kingdom and stedfastness of Jesus, found myself in the island called Patmos, for the sake of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
Revelation 7:14
And I said to him, "You know, my Lord." And he said to me, "These are those who have come out of the great persecution, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 12:4
His tail drew a third part of the stars of the sky, and dashed them down to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman about to be delivered, so that he might devour her child when she was delivered.
Revelation 12:7-10
And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels went forth to war with the dragon; and the dragon also fought, and his angels;