Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to share ill-treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.
Matthew 5:10-12
"Blessed are those who have been persecuted in the cause of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 13:21
"But he has no root in himself; he continues for a time, but when trouble arises, or persecutions, on account of the word, at once he stumbles and falls.
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
"'Remember my son.' said Abraham, 'that you had in your lifetime all your good things, and in the same way Lazarus his evil things; but now here he is comforted, and you are in anguish.
Acts 7:24-25
"and when he saw one of them wronged he wrought redress for the one overpowered, by striking down the Egyptian.
Acts 20:23-24
except that in city after city the Holy Spirit is warning me that bonds and afflictions are awaiting me.
Romans 5:3
And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,
Romans 8:17-18
and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; but to share his glory, we must now be sharing his sufferings.
Romans 8:35-39
What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword?
2 Corinthians 5:17
So there is a new creation when any man is in Christ. The old life has passed away, behold, the new is come.
Colossians 1:24
I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.
2 Thessalonians 1:3-6
I ought always to thank God for you, brothers, as is fitting because of the abundant growth of your faith and of the overflowing love with which every one of you is filled toward one another.
2 Timothy 1:8
Do not then be ashamed to bear witness for our Lord, nor for me, his prisoner. Nay, join with me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.
2 Timothy 2:3-10
Take your share in suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
2 Timothy 3:11-12
as well as the persecutions and sufferings which befell me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know all the persecutions I endured, and how the Lord delivered me out of them all!
Hebrews 10:32
But ever call to mind the former days, in which, after having been enlightened, you 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 wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, persecuted, tormented??38 of whom the world was not worthy??andering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.
James 1:20
for a man's anger does not further the righteous purpose of God.
James 5:5
You have lived luxuriously on earth, you have taken your pleasure, you have fattened your hearts for a day of slaughter.
1 Peter 1:6-7
Exult in this, though now for a brief moment, if need be, you have suffered many hardships.
1 Peter 4:12-16
Do not think it strange, beloved, that a fiery ordeal has come to test you, as though some surprising thing had befallen you.
Revelation 18:7
By so much as she glorified herself and waxed wanton, By so much give her of torture and tears, For she says in her heart, 'I sit here a queen, I am no widow. I shall in no wise see mourning.'