Matthew 5:11
Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake;
Acts 5:41
The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy of suffering dishonour for the sake of the Name;
Matthew 10:28
Have no fear of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul: rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man;
Luke 12:4-5
I tell you, my friends, have no fear of those who kill the body but after that can do no more;
2 Corinthians 3:3
you make it obvious that you are a letter of Christ which I have been employed to inscribe, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of the human heart.
Philippians 3:8
indeed I count anything a loss, compared to the supreme value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything (I count it all the veriest refuse) in order to gain Christ
Philippians 3:10
I would know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, with my nature transformed to die as he died,
Titus 2:11-12
For the grace of God has appeared to save all men,
Hebrews 10:16
This is the covenant I will make with them when that day comes, saith the Lord, I will set my laws upon their hearts, inscribing them upon their minds, he adds,
1 Peter 4:4
and it astonishes them that you will not plunge with them still into the same flood of profligacy. They abuse you,
1 Peter 4:14
If you are denounced for the sake of Christ, you are blessed; for then the Spirit of glory and power, the Spirit of God himself, is resting on you.