Luke 6:23
Be glad when that happens, and leap for joy, for you will be richly rewarded in heaven, for that is the way their forefathers treated the prophets.
Matthew 5:12
Be glad and exult over it, for you will be richly rewarded in heaven, for that is the way they persecuted the prophets who went before you!
Revelation 21:7
He who is victorious will possess all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.
Matthew 6:1-2
"But take care not to do your good deeds in public for people to see, for, if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.
Matthew 21:35-36
But the tenants took his slaves and beat one and killed another and stoned a third.
Matthew 23:31-37
So you bear witness against yourselves that you are descended from the murderers of the prophets.
Luke 1:41
When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the babe stirred within her. And Elizabeth was filled with the holy Spirit
Luke 1:44
"For the moment your greeting reached my ears, The child stirred with joy within me!
Luke 6:35
But love your enemies, and help them and lend to them, never despairing, and you will be richly rewarded, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the wicked.
Acts 3:8
and he sprang to his feet and began to walk, and he went into the Temple with them, walking, leaping, and praising God.
Acts 5:41
So they went out from before the council, glad that they had been thought worthy to bear disgrace for the sake of Jesus,
Acts 7:51-52
You stubborn people, with heathen hearts and ears, you are always opposing the holy Spirit, just as your forefathers did!
Acts 14:10
said to him loudly, "Stand on your feet!" And he sprang up and began to walk.
Romans 5:3
More than that, we ought to glory in our troubles, for we know that trouble produces endurance,
2 Corinthians 12:10
That is why I am pleased with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties, when they are endured for Christ's sake, for it is when I am weak that I am strong.
Colossians 1:24
At present I am glad to be suffering in your interest, and I am making up in my own person what is lacking in Christ's sufferings for the church, which is his body.
1 Thessalonians 2:14-15
For you, brothers, followed the example of God's churches in Judea that are in union with Christ Jesus, for you in your turn had to bear the same ill-treatment from your neighbors as they did from the Jews,
2 Thessalonians 1:5-7
This is a proof of God's justice in judging, and it is to prove you worthy of the Kingdom of God, for the sake of which you are suffering,
2 Timothy 2:12
If we endure, we will reign with him! If we disown him, he will also disown us!
2 Timothy 4:7-8
I have had a part in the great contest, I have run my race, I have preserved my faith.
Hebrews 11:6
but without faith it is impossible to please him; for whoever would approach God must have faith in his existence and in his willingness to reward those who try to find him.
Hebrews 11:26
and thought such contempt as the Christ endured was truer wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking forward to the coming reward.
Hebrews 11:32-39
And why should I go on? For my time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,
James 1:2
You must find the greatest joy, my brothers, in being involved in various trials,
1 Peter 4:13
but be glad that you are in a measure sharing the sufferings of the Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may be triumphantly happy.
Revelation 2:7
Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will permit him who is victorious to eat the fruit of the tree of life that stands in the Paradise of God.'
Revelation 2:10-11
Do not be afraid of what you are going to suffer. See! The devil is going to put some of you into prison to be tested there, and for ten days to endure persecution. Prove faithful even unto death and I will give you the crown of life.
Revelation 2:17
Let everyone who can hear listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give him who is victorious some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white pebble with a new name written on it which no one knows except the man who receives it.'
Revelation 2:26
To him who is victorious and continues to the end to do the things that please me, I will give authority over the heathen??27 just such authority as I received from my Father; he will shepherd them with an iron staff and shatter them like earthen jars!??28 and I will give him the morning star.
Revelation 3:5
He who is victorious will be clothed thus, in white clothing, and I will not erase his name from the book of life, but I will acknowledge him as mine in the presence of my Father and his angels.
Revelation 3:12
I will make him who is victorious a pillar in the temple of my God; he shall never go out of it again. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God??he new Jerusalem, which is to come down out of heaven from my God??nd my new name.