Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to have an enjoyment of sin for a time,
1 Peter 3:17
For it is better to suffer doing good, if the will of God allows, than doing evil.
Matthew 5:29-30
But if your right eye offends you, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell.
Matthew 13:21
but has no root in himself, but is only a temporary [disciple]; and when affliction or persecution arises on account of the word, he is immediately offended.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any one will 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 calling the apostles and scourging them, they charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them.
1 Peter 4:15-16
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or as a meddler in other men's affairs;