Acts 21:13
Then Paul replied, "What do you mean by weeping and disheartening me? I am ready not only to be bound but also to die at Jerusalem for the sake of the Lord Jesus."
Acts 20:24
But then, I set no value on my own life as compared with the joy of finishing my course and fulfilling the commission I received from the Lord Jesus to attest the gospel of the grace of God.
Acts 9:16
I will show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my Name."
Philippians 2:17
Even if my life-blood has to be poured as a libation on the sacred sacrifice of faith you are offering to God, I rejoice, I congratulate you all ??18 and you in turn must rejoice and congratulate me.
Acts 5:41
The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy of suffering dishonour for the sake of the Name;
Acts 20:37
They all broke into loud lamentation and falling upon the neck of Paul kissed him fondly,
Romans 8:35-37
What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?
1 Corinthians 15:31
(Not a day but I am at death's door! I swear it by my pride in you, brothers, through Christ Jesus our Lord.)
Philippians 2:26
for he has been yearning for you all. He has been greatly concerned because you heard he was ill.
Colossians 1:24
I am suffering now on your behalf, but I rejoice in that; I would make up the full sum of all that Christ has to suffer in my person on behalf of the church, his Body;
2 Timothy 1:4
When I recall the tears you shed when we parted, I long by night and day to see you again. That would fill me with joy,
2 Timothy 2:4-6
No soldier gets entangled in civil pursuits; his aim is to satisfy his commander.
2 Timothy 4:6
The last drops of my own sacrifice are falling; my time to go has come.
2 Peter 1:14
since I know my tent must be folded up very soon ??as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.
Revelation 3:10
Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I will keep you safe through the hour of trial which is coming upon the whole world to test the dwellers on earth.
Revelation 12:11
But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they had to die for it, but they did not cling to life.
2 Corinthians 11:23-27
Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison ??a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;