2 Timothy 3:12
and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,
Acts 14:22
confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,
Titus 2:12
teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,
Joshua 17:14
And the sons of Joseph speak with Joshua, saying, 'Wherefore hast thou given to me an inheritance -- one lot and one portion, and I a numerous people? hitherto hath Jehovah blessed me.'
Psalm 37:12-15
The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.
Matthew 5:10-12
Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake -- because theirs is the reign of the heavens.
Matthew 10:22-25
and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.
Matthew 16:24
Then said Jesus to his disciples, 'If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me,
Matthew 23:34
'Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city;
Mark 10:30
who may not receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and fields, with persecutions, and in the age that is coming, life age-during;
Luke 14:26-27
'If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;
John 15:19-21
if of the world ye were, the world its own would have been loving, and because of the world ye are not -- but I chose out of the world -- because of this the world hateth you.
John 16:2
out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;
John 16:33
these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage -- I have overcome the world.'
John 17:14
I have given to them Thy word, and the world did hate them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world;
1 Corinthians 15:19
if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;
1 Thessalonians 3:3-4
that no one be moved in these tribulations, for yourselves have known that for this we are set,
1 Timothy 2:2
for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,
1 Timothy 3:16
and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety -- God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!
1 Timothy 6:3
if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words -- those of our Lord Jesus Christ -- and to the teaching according to piety,
Titus 1:1
Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that is according to piety,
Hebrews 11:32-38
And what shall I yet say? for the time will fail me recounting about Gideon, Barak also, and Samson, and Jephthah, David also, and Samuel, and the prophets,
1 Peter 2:20-21
for what renown is it, if sinning and being buffeted, ye do endure it? but if, doing good and suffering for it, ye do endure, this is gracious with God,
1 Peter 3:14
but if ye also should suffer because of righteousness, happy are ye! and of their fear be not afraid, nor be troubled,
1 Peter 4:12-16
Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,
1 Peter 5:9-10
whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.
2 Peter 3:11
All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts?
Revelation 1:9-10
I, John, who also am your brother, and fellow-partner in the tribulation, and in the reign and endurance, of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of Jesus Christ;
Revelation 7:14
and I have said to him, 'Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, 'These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;
Revelation 12:4
and his tail doth draw the third of the stars of the heaven, and he did cast them to the earth; and the dragon did stand before the woman who is about to bring forth, that when she may bring forth, her child he may devour;
Revelation 12:7-10
And there came war in the heaven; Michael and his messengers did war against the dragon, and the dragon did war, and his messengers,