Matthew 5:11
"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and keep on falsely telling all sorts of evil against you for my sake.
1 Peter 4:14
If you are suffering abuse because you bear the name of Christ, you are happy, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.
Matthew 10:25
The pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and the slave should be satisfied to become like his master. If men have called the Head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they heap upon the members of His family!
Matthew 10:39
Anybody who gains his lower life will lose the higher life, and anybody who loses his lower life for my sake will gain the higher life.
Mark 8:35
For whoever wants to save his higher life, will have to give up the lower life, and whoever gives up his lower life for me and for the good news, will save the higher life.
Mark 13:13
You will be hated by everybody, because you bear my name. But whoever bears up to the end will be saved.
Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and denounce you, and spurn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.
Luke 21:17
and you will be continuously hated by everyone, because you bear my name.
John 15:21
They will do all this to you on account of me, because they do not know Him who has sent me.
1 Peter 2:23
Although He was abused, He never retorted; although He continued to suffer, He never threatened, but committed His case to Him who judges justly.
Matthew 10:18
and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness to them and the heathen.
Matthew 10:22
And you will be hated by all men, because you bear my name, but whoever bears up to the end will be saved.
Matthew 19:29
And everyone who has given up home or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms, for my sake, will receive many times as much, and in addition will be in possession of eternal life.
Matthew 24:9
At that time they will turn you over to torture, and will murder you, and you will be hated by all the heathen, because you bear my name.
Matthew 27:39
And the passers-by kept hissing at Him, shaking their heads
Mark 4:17
but it does not take real root in them, and so they last only a little while; then when trouble or persecution comes on account of the truth, they at once fall by the way.
Mark 13:9
So you must be on the lookout for yourselves; they will turn you over to courts, and to synagogues where you will be beaten, and you must appear before governors and kings for my sake, to testify to them.
Luke 7:33-34
"For John the Baptist came eating no bread and drinking no wine, and yet you say, 'He has a demon!'
Luke 9:24
For whoever chooses to save his lower life will lose his higher life, but whoever gives up his lower life for my sake will save his higher life.
Luke 21:12
But before all this takes place, people will arrest you and persecute you, and turn you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.
John 9:28
Then they jeered 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 how great are the sufferings he must endure for my name's sake."
Romans 8:36
As the Scripture says: "For your sake we are being put to death the livelong day; we are treated like sheep to be slaughtered."
1 Corinthians 4:10
For we have become a spectacle to the universe, to angels as well as men. For Christ's sake we are held as fools, while you through union with Christ are men of wisdom. We are weak; you are strong. You are held in honor; we in dishonor.
2 Corinthians 4:11
For all the time I continue to live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that in my mortal lower nature the life of Jesus may be clearly shown.
Revelation 2:3
You are showing patient endurance, and you have borne it for my sake, and have not grown weary.