Hebrews 11:25
ill-treatment with God's people he preferred to the passing pleasures of sin,
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of goodness! the Realm of heaven is theirs.
Matthew 13:21
he has no root in himself, he does not last, but when the word brings trouble or persecution he is at once repelled.
Luke 12:19-20
And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have ample stores laid up for many a year; take your ease, eat, drink and be merry."'
Luke 16:25
But Abraham said, 'Remember, my son, you got all the bliss when you were alive, just as Lazarus got the ills of life; he is in comfort now, and you are in anguish.
Acts 7:24-25
He saw one of them being badly treated, so he defended him, struck down the Egyptian, and thus avenged the man who had been wronged.
Acts 20:23-24
Only, I know this, that in town after town the holy Spirit testifies to me that bonds and troubles are awaiting me.
Romans 5:3
Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance,
Romans 8:17-18
and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ ??for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory.
Romans 8:35-39
What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?
2 Corinthians 5:17
There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come.
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 Thessalonians 1:3-6
We are bound always to thank God for you, brothers ??it is proper that we should, because your faith grows apace and your mutual love, one and all, is increasing.
2 Timothy 1:8
So do not be ashamed to testify to our Lord, and do not be ashamed of a prisoner of the Lord like me; join me in bearing suffering for the gospel by the power of the God
2 Timothy 2:3-10
Join the ranks of those who bear suffering, like a loyal soldier of Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:11-12
my persecutions, my sufferings ??all that befell me at Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, all the persecutions I had to undergo, from which the Lord rescued me.
Hebrews 4:9
There is a sabbath-Rest, then, reserved still for the People of God
Hebrews 10:32
Recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle of suffering,
James 5:5
You have revelled on earth and plunged into dissipation; you have fattened yourselves as for the Day of slaughter;
1 Peter 1:6-7
You will rejoice then, though for the passing moment you may need to suffer various trials;
1 Peter 4:12-16
Beloved, do not be surprised at the ordeal that has come to test you, as though some foreign experience befell you.
Revelation 18:7
As she gloried and played the wanton, so give her like measure of torture and tears. Since in her heart she vaunts, 'A queen I sit, no widow I, tears I shall never know,'