Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Job 20:5
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?
Job 36:21
Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.
Psalm 84:10
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Job 21:11-13
They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.
Psalm 47:9
The princes of the peoples are gathered together To be the people of the God of Abraham: For the shields of the earth belong unto God; He is greatly exalted.
Psalm 73:18-20
Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.
Isaiah 21:4
My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.
Isaiah 47:8-9
Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to pleasures, that sittest securely, that sayest in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness'sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 13:21
yet hath he not root in himself, but endureth for a while; and when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, straightway he stumbleth.
Luke 12:19-20
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.
Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things: but now here he is comforted and thou art in anguish.
Acts 7:24-25
And seeing one of them'suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, smiting the Egyptian:
Acts 20:23-24
save that the Holy Spirit testifieth unto me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
Romans 5:3
And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;
Romans 8:17-18
and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him , that we may be also glorified with him .
Romans 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
2 Corinthians 5:17
Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church;
2 Thessalonians 1:3-6
We are bound to give thanks to God always to you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith growth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth;
2 Timothy 1:8
Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God;
2 Timothy 2:3-10
Suffer hardship with me , as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:11-12
persecutions, sufferings. What things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.
Hebrews 4:9
There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God.
Hebrews 10:32
But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;
Hebrews 11:37
they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
James 1:20
for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
James 5:5
Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
1 Peter 1:6-7
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials,
1 Peter 2:10
who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
1 Peter 4:12-16
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you:
Revelation 18:7
How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning.