Matthew 5:11
"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and falsely say everything bad of you, on my account.
1 Peter 4:14
If you are being abused for the sake of Christ, you are blessed, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.
Matthew 10:25
A pupil should be satisfied to come to be like his teacher, or a slave, to come to be like his master. If men have called the head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they give to the members of his household!
Matthew 10:39
Whoever gains his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will gain it.
Mark 8:35
For whoever wants to preserve his own life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me and for the good news will preserve it.
Mark 13:13
You will be hated by everyone, because you bear my name. But he who holds out to the end will be saved.
Luke 6:22
"Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and denounce you and spurn the name you bear as evil, on account of the Son of Man.
Luke 21:17
and you will be hated by everyone because you bear my name.
John 15:21
But they will do all this to you on my account, because they do not understand him who sent me.
1 Peter 2:23
He was abused but he did not retort. He suffered but he did not threaten, but committed his case to him who judges justly.
Matthew 10:18
and you will be brought before governors and kings on my account, to bear your testimony before them and the heathen.
Matthew 10:22
You will be hated by everybody on my account, but the man who holds out to the very end will be saved.
Matthew 19:29
And anyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or land for my sake will receive many times as much, and share eternal life.
Matthew 24:9
Then they will hand you over to persecution and they will put you to death, and you will be hated by all the heathen because you bear my name.
Matthew 27:39
And the passers-by jeered at him, shaking their heads
Mark 4:17
but it takes no real root in them and they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes because of the message they give it up at once.
Mark 13:9
But you must be on your guard; they will hand you over to courts and you will be taken into synagogues and beaten, and you will be brought before governors and kings on my account, to testify to them.
Luke 7:33-34
"For when John the Baptist came, he did not eat any bread or drink any wine, and you said, 'He has a demon!'
Luke 9:24
For whoever wants to preserve his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will preserve it.
Luke 21:12
But before all this, men will arrest you and persecute you, and hand you over to synagogues and prisons and have you brought before kings and governors on my account.
John 9:28
Then they sneered at him, and said, "You are a disciple of his yourself, but we are disciples of Moses.
Acts 9:16
For I am going to show him what he will have to endure for my sake."
Romans 8:36
As the Scripture says, "For your sake we are being put to death all day long, We are treated like sheep to be slaughtered."
1 Corinthians 4:10
We are made fools of, for the sake of Christ, while you are men of sense, through being united with him. We are weak, you are strong. You are distinguished, we are despised.
2 Corinthians 4:11
For every day I live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be visible in my mortal nature.
Revelation 2:3
You show endurance; you have undergone much for my sake, and you have not grown weary.