2 Timothy 3:12

The Value Of The Scriptures

¹¹ my persecutions, my sufferings, such as befell me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra, such as I endured but the Lord delivered me out of them all. ¹² Yes, indeed, everyone who wants to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted. ¹³ But bad men and imposters will go on from bad to worse, misleading others and misled themselves.

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Acts 14:22

strengthening the hearts of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith, and warning them that it is through enduring many hardships that we must get into the kingdom of God.

Titus 2:12

training us to give up godless ways and worldly cravings and live serious, upright, and godly lives in this world,

Matthew 5:10-12

"Blessed are those who suffer persecution for being and doing right, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.

Matthew 10:22-25

And you will be hated by all men, because you bear my name, but whoever bears up to the end will be saved.

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to His disciples: "If anyone wants to be my disciple, he must say 'No' to self, put his cross on his shoulders, and keep on following me.

Matthew 23:34

Therefore, I am going to send you prophets, wise men, and scribes, some of whom you will kill -- even crucify -- and some you will flog in your synagogues and chase from city to city,

Mark 10:30

who will not receive now in this life a hundred times as much in houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, but along with them persecution, and in the world to come eternal life.

Luke 14:26-27

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and still more, his own life too, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

John 15:19-21

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what is its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, that the world hates you.

John 16:2

Men will turn you out of their synagogues. Yes, indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that he is rendering a religious service to God.

John 16:33

I have told you these things, that you through union with me may have peace. In the world you have trouble, but be courageous! I have conquered the world."

John 17:14

I have given them your message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to it.

1 Corinthians 15:19

If for this life only we Christians have set our hopes on Christ, we are the most pitiable people in the world.

2 Corinthians 1:12

For my boast is this, to which my conscience testifies, that before the world, but especially before you, I have acted from pure motives and in sincerity before God, not depending on worldly wisdom but on God's unmerited favor.

1 Thessalonians 3:3-4

so that none of you might be deceived amid these difficulties. For you knew yourselves that this is our appointed lot,

1 Timothy 2:2

for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead peaceful, quiet lives in perfect piety and seriousness.

1 Timothy 3:16

Undoubtedly the mystery of our religion is a great wonder: "He was made visible in human form; He was vindicated by the Spirit; He was seen by angels; He was proclaimed among the heathen; He was trusted in throughout the world; He was taken up to glory."

1 Timothy 6:3

If anyone teaches different doctrines and refuses to agree with the wholesome messages of our Lord Jesus Christ, the teaching that is in accordance with true religion,

Titus 1:1

Paul, a slave of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to stimulate faith in God's chosen people and to lead them on to a full knowledge of religious truth,

Hebrews 11:32-38

And why should I continue to mention more? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

1 Peter 2:20-21

For what credit is it to bear it patiently, if you do wrong and are beaten for it? But if you do right and patiently suffer for it, it is pleasing in the sight of God.

1 Peter 3:14

Instead, you are happy, even if you should suffer for doing right. Never be afraid of their threats, and never be disturbed,

1 Peter 4:12-16

Dearly beloved, do not be astonished that a test by fire is coming upon you, as though something strange were happening to you,

1 Peter 5:9-10

Resist him and be strong in faith, because you know that your brotherhood all over the world is experiencing the same sort of sufferings.

2 Peter 3:11

If all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what men you ought to be! What holy and pious lives you ought to lead,

Revelation 1:9-10

I, John, your brother and companion with you in the trouble, the kingdom, and the patient endurance which Jesus gives, found myself on the island called Patmos, for preaching God's message and testifying to Jesus.

Revelation 7:14

I answered him, "You know, my lord." He said to me: "These are the people who are coming through the great persecution, who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 12:4

His tail was dragging after it a third part of the stars of heaven and dashed 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 going to war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought,