Philippians 1:30
Take your part in the same struggle that you have seen me engage in and that you hear I am still keeping up.
Acts 16:19-40
But when her masters saw that their hopes of profits were gone, they seized Paul and Silas, dragged them to the public square, to the authorities,
1 Thessalonians 2:2
We had just been through ill-treatment and insults at Philippi, as you remember, but, in the face of great opposition, we took courage by the help of our God, and told you God's good news.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have had a part in the great contest, I have run my race, I have preserved my faith.
John 16:33
I have told you all this, so that through me you may find peace. In the world you have trouble; but take courage! I have conquered the world."
Romans 8:35-37
Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can trouble or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?
1 Corinthians 4:9-14
For it seems to me, God has exhibited us apostles at the very end of the procession, like the men condemned to die in the arena. For we have become a spectacle to the whole universe, angels as well as men.
1 Corinthians 15:30-32
Why do we ourselves run such risks every hour?
Ephesians 6:11-18
You must put on God's armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems.
Colossians 1:29-1
That is what I am working for, fighting with all the energy with which he so mightily endows me.
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,
1 Thessalonians 3:2-4
and I sent my brother Timothy, a servant of God in preaching the good news of the Christ, to strengthen you in your faith
1 Timothy 6:12
Enter the great contest of faith! Take hold of eternal life, to which God called you, when before many witnesses you made the great profession of faith.
2 Timothy 2:10-12
For that reason I am ready to submit to anything for the sake of those whom God has chosen, so that they too may gain the salvation that comes through Christ Jesus and brings eternal glory.
Hebrews 10:32-33
But you must remember those early days when after you had received the light you had to go through a great struggle with persecution,
Hebrews 12:4
You have not yet resisted unto death in your struggle with sin,
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 12:11
They have conquered him because of the Lamb's blood, and the message to which they bore testimony, for they did not cling to life even in the face of death.