Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to suffer evil with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season;
1 Peter 3:17
For it is better, if such be the will of God, that you suffer for doing good, than for doing evil.
Matthew 5:29-30
If, then, your right eye ensnare you, tear it out, and throw it from you; for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be thrown into hell.
Matthew 13:21
Yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while; and when affliction or persecution arises on account of the word, he immediately takes offense.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any one determines to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Acts 5:40-41
And they were persuaded by him; and when they had called the apostles in and scourged them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
1 Peter 4:15-16
for no one of you should suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.