Hebrews 11:25
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.
1 Peter 3:17
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well-doing than for evil-doing.
Matthew 5:29-30
But if thy right eye cause thee to offend, pluck it out and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Matthew 13:21
Yet hath he not root in himself, and so endureth but for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, straight-way he is offended.
Matthew 16:24
Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any man be willing to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow me.
Acts 5:40-41
And to him they agreed. And having called the apostles, and scourged them, they charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
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 mens matters,