2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, and all who want to live the religious life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
Acts 14:22
strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold by the faith, and telling them that "we have to get into the Realm of God through many a trouble."
Titus 2:12
and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of goodness! the Realm of heaven is theirs.
Matthew 10:22-25
and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me;
Matthew 23:34
This is why I will send you prophets, wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, some of whom you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town;
Mark 10:30
who does not get a hundred times as much ??in this present world homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and lands, together with persecutions, and in the world to come life eternal.
Luke 14:26-27
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, aye and his own life, he cannot be a disciple of mine;
John 15:19-21
If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you.
John 16:2
They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.
John 16:33
I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.
John 17:14
I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world.
1 Corinthians 15:19
Ah, if in this life we have nothing but a mere hope in Christ, we are of all men to be pitied most!
2 Corinthians 1:12
My proud boast is the testimony of my conscience that holiness and godly sincerity, not worldly cunning but the grace of God, have marked my conduct in the outside world and in particular my relations with you.
1 Thessalonians 3:3-4
to prevent anyone being disturbed by these troubles. (Troubles are our lot, you know that well;
1 Timothy 3:16
And who does not admit how profound is the divine truth of our religion? ??it is He who was "manifest in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by the angels, preached among the nations, believed on throughout the world, taken up to glory."
1 Timothy 6:3
Anyone who teaches novelties and refuses to fall in with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the doctrine that tallies with piety,
Titus 1:1
Paul a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of God's elect and for their knowledge of the Truth that goes with a religious life,
Hebrews 11:32-38
And what more shall I say? Time would fail me to tell of Gideon, of Barak and Samson and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets ??33 men who by faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouth of lions,
1 Peter 2:20-21
Where is the credit in standing punishment for having done wrong? No, if you stand suffering for having done right, that is what God counts a merit.
1 Peter 3:14
Even supposing you have to suffer for the sake of what is right, still you are blessed. Have no fear of their threats, do not let that trouble you,
1 Peter 4:12-16
Beloved, do not be surprised at the ordeal that has come to test you, as though some foreign experience befell you.
1 Peter 5:9-10
Resist him; keep your foothold in the faith, and learn to pay the same tax of suffering as the rest of your brotherhood throughout the world.
2 Peter 3:11
Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour,
Revelation 1:9-10
I John, your brother and your companion in the distress and realm and patient endurance which Jesus brings, found myself in the island called Patmos, for adhering to God's word and the testimony of Jesus.
Revelation 7:14
I said to him, "You know, my lord." So he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the great Distress, who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 12:4
his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and flung them to the earth. And the dragon stood in front of the woman who was on the point of being delivered, to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Revelation 12:7-10
And war broke out in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting with the dragon; the dragon and his angels also fought,