Hebrews 11:25
choosing instead to be mistreated with the people of God [rather] than to experience the transitory enjoyment of sin,
Job 20:5
that [the] rejoicing of [the] wicked [is] {short}, and the joy of [the] godless {lasts only a moment}?
Job 36:21
Take care, you must not turn to mischief, for because of this you have been tried by misery.
Psalm 84:10
Because better [is] a day in your courtyards than a thousand [elsewhere]. I would rather be at the threshold of the house of my God than to dwell in [the] tents of wickedness.
Job 21:11-13
They send out their little ones like the flock, and their children dance around.
Psalm 47:9
[The] princes of [the] peoples are gathered together [with] the people of Abraham's God. For [the] shields of [the] earth belong to God. He is very exalted.
Psalm 73:18-20
Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.
Isaiah 21:4
My {mind} staggers; fear terrifies me; the twilight {I desired} {brought} me fear.
Isaiah 47:8-9
Therefore now hear this, luxuriant [one] who sits in security, who says in her heart, "I [am], and besides me [there is] no one. I shall not sit [as] a widow, and I shall not know [the] loss of children."
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed [are] those who are persecuted because of righteousness, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 13:21
But he does not have a root in himself, but {lasts only a little while}, and [when] affliction or persecution happens because of the word, immediately he falls away.
Luke 12:19-20
And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many possessions stored up for many years. Relax, eat, drink, celebrate!" '
Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that you received your good [things] during your life, and Lazarus likewise bad [things]. But now he is comforted here, but you are suffering pain.
Acts 7:24-25
And [when he] saw one of them being unjustly harmed, he defended [him] and {avenged} the one who had been oppressed [by] striking down the Egyptian.
Acts 20:23-24
except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in town [after town], saying that bonds and persecutions await me.
Romans 5:3
And not only [this], but we also boast in our afflictions, [because we] know that affliction produces patient endurance,
Romans 8:17-18
and if children, also heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer together [with him] so that we may also be glorified together [with him].
Romans 8:35-39
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? [Will] affliction or distress or persecution or hunger or lack of sufficient clothing or danger or the sword?
2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if anyone [is] in Christ, [he is] a new creation; the old [things] have passed away; behold, new [things] have come.
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings on behalf of you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ, on behalf of his body which is the church,
2 Thessalonians 1:3-6
We ought to give thanks to God always concerning you, brothers, just as it is fitting, because your faith is flourishing and the love of each one of you all toward one another is increasing
2 Timothy 1:8
Therefore, do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor me his prisoner, but suffer along with [me] for the gospel, according to the power of God,
2 Timothy 2:3-10
Suffer together with [me] as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:11-12
persecutions, [and] sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, [and] in Lystra, what sort of persecutions I endured, and the Lord delivered me from all [of them].
Hebrews 4:9
Consequently a sabbath rest remains for the people of God.
Hebrews 10:32
But remember the former days in which, [after you] were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings,
Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by murder with a sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, impoverished, afflicted, mistreated,
James 1:20
for human anger does not accomplish the righteousness of God.
James 5:5
You have lived self-indulgently on the earth and have lived luxuriously. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
1 Peter 1:6-7
in which you rejoice greatly, [although] now for a short time, if necessary, you are distressed by various trials,
1 Peter 2:10
who once [were] not a people, but now [are] the people of God, the ones [who were] not shown mercy, but now are shown mercy.
1 Peter 4:12-16
Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, [when it] takes place to test you, as [if] [something] strange were happening to you.
Revelation 18:7
As much as she glorified herself and lived in luxury, give to her so much torment and mourning, because in her heart she said, 'I sit as a queen, and am not a widow, and I will never see mourning!'