Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,
Job 20:5
that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly is for a moment?
Job 36:21
Beware, do not turn to iniquity; for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
Psalm 84:10
For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than 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 rulers of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth are God's; He is lifted up on high.
Psalm 73:18-20
Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down into ruin.
Isaiah 21:4
My heart wanders, terror overwhelms me; He has turned the twilight of my pleasure into trembling.
Isaiah 47:8-9
Now then hear this, O pleasure seeker, who lives carelessly; who says in her heart, I am, and none else is; I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children.
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are they who have been persecuted for righteousness sake! For theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.
Matthew 13:21
But he has no root in himself, and is temporary. For when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the Word, he immediately stumbles.
Luke 12:19-20
And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat drink and be merry.
Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted and you are tormented.
Acts 7:24-25
And seeing one being wronged, he defended him. and avenged him who was oppressed and struck the Egyptian.
Acts 20:23-24
except that the Holy Spirit witnesses in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.
Romans 5:3
And not only this, but we glory in afflictions also, knowing that afflictions work out patience,
Romans 8:17-18
And if we are children, then we are heirs; heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; so that if we suffer with Him, we may also be glorified together.
Romans 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
2 Corinthians 5:17
So that if any one is in Christ, that one is a new creature; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Colossians 1:24
who now rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and I fill up the things lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh, on behalf of His body, which is the church;
2 Thessalonians 1:3-6
We are bound to thank God always for you, my brothers, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;
2 Timothy 1:8
Therefore you should not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner. But be partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God,
2 Timothy 2:3-10
Therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 3:11-12
persecutions, afflictions, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra. What persecutions I endured! But the Lord delivered me out of all.
Hebrews 4:9
So then there remains a rest to the people of God.
Hebrews 10:32
But call to memory the former days, in which (after you were illuminated) you endured a great fight of afflictions,
Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned, they were sawed in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.
James 1:20
For the wrath of man does not work out the righteousness of God.
James 5:5
You have lived luxuriously on the earth, and lived wantonly. You have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
1 Peter 1:6-7
in which you greatly rejoice, yet a little while, if need be, grieving in manifold temptations;
1 Peter 2:10
you who then were not a people, but now the people of God, those not pitied then, but now pitied.
1 Peter 4:12-16
Beloved, do not be astonished at the fiery trial which is to try you, as though a strange thing happened to you,
Revelation 18:7
As much as she has glorified herself and has lived in luxury, so much torment and sorrow give her. For she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, and I am not a widow; and I do not see mourning at all.