Hebrews 11:25
having determined to endure ill-treatment along with the people of God rather than enjoy the short-lived pleasures of sin;
1 Peter 3:17
For it is better that you should suffer for doing right, if such be God's will, than for doing evil;
Matthew 5:29-30
If therefore your eye, even the right eye, is a snare to you, tear it out and away with it; it is better for you that one member should be destroyed rather than that your whole body should be thrown into Gehenna.
Matthew 13:21
It has struck no root, however, within him. He continues for a time, but when suffering comes, or persecution, because of the Message, he at once stumbles and falls.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If any one desires to follow me, let him renounce self and take up his cross, and so be my follower.
Acts 5:40-41
His advice carried conviction. So they called the Apostles in, and--after flogging them--ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and then let them go.
1 Peter 4:15-16
But let not one of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evil-doer, or as a spy upon other people's business.