James 1:2
My brethren, count it exceeding joy when ye fall into divers temptations,
1 Peter 1:6-8
in the which time ye shall rejoice, though now for a season - if need require - ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations,
Luke 6:22-23
Blessed are ye when men hate you, and thrust you out of their company, and rail on you, and abhor your name, as an evil thing, for the son of man's sake.
James 1:12
Happy is the man that endureth in temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Acts 5:41
And they departed from the council rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for his name.
Romans 8:17-18
If we be sons, we are also heirs: the heirs, I mean, of God: and heirs annexed with Christ. If so be that we suffer together, that we may be glorified together.
Romans 8:35-37
Who shall separate us from the love of God? Shall tribulation? Or anguish? Or persecution, other hunger? Other nakedness? Other peril? Other sword?
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
and he said unto me, "My grace is sufficient for thee. For my strength is made perfect through weakness." Very gladly therefore will I rejoice of my weakness, that the strength of Christ may dwell in me.
Philippians 1:29
For unto you it is given, that not only ye should believe on Christ: but also suffer for his sake,
Colossians 1:24
Now joy I in my sufferings which I suffer, for you; and fulfill that which is behind of the passions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the congregation -
Hebrews 10:34
For ye suffered also with my bonds, and took in worth the spoiling of your goods, and that with gladness, knowing in yourselves how that ye had in heaven a better, and an enduring substance.
Hebrews 11:36-38
Others tasted of mockings, and scourgings, moreover of bonds and prisonment:
1 Peter 4:13-16
but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's passions, that when his glory appeareth, ye may be merry and glad.
2 Peter 2:9
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and how to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment for to be punished:
Revelation 2:10
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil shall cast of you into prison, to tempt you, and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto the death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Philippians 2:17
Yea, and though I be offered up upon the offering and sacrifice of your faith: I rejoice and rejoice with you all.