²⁹ For it has been graciously granted to you for Christ's sake, not only to trust in Him but also to suffer for Him, ³⁰ since you are having the same struggle that you once saw me have and which you hear that I am still having.

Phrases

In Me

Cross References

Acts 16:19-40

But as the owners saw that the hope of their profit-making was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them to the public square, before the authorities,

1 Thessalonians 2:2

But, although we had just suffered and been insulted, as you remember, at Philippi, we again summoned courage by the help of God, in spite of the terrific strain, to tell you God's good news.

2 Timothy 4:7

I have fought the fight for the good, I have run my race, I have kept faith.

John 16:33

I have told you these things, that you through union with me may have peace. In the world you have trouble, but be courageous! I have conquered the world."

Romans 8:35-37

Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can suffering or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?

1 Corinthians 4:9-14

For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on exhibition at the disgraced end of the procession, as they do with men who are doomed to die in the arena.

1 Corinthians 15:30-32

Why too do we ourselves run such risks every hour?

Ephesians 6:11-18

You must put on God's full armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems.

Colossians 1:29-1

For this I am toiling and struggling by His active energy which is mightily working in 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 too have suffered the same sort of ill-treatment at the hands of your fellow-countrymen as they did at the hands of the Jews,

1 Thessalonians 3:2-4

and so I sent my brother Timothy, God's minister in the preaching of the good news of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,

1 Timothy 6:12

Keep up the good fight for the faith. Keep your hold on eternal life, to which God called you, when before many witnesses you made the good profession of faith.

2 Timothy 2:10-12

For this reason I am bearing anything for the sake of His chosen people, so that they too may obtain the salvation that comes through Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory.

Hebrews 10:32-33

But you must continue to remember those earlier days when first you received the light and then endured so great a struggle with persecution,

Hebrews 12:4

You have not yet, as you have struggled on against sin, resisted to the point of pouring out your blood,

Revelation 2:10-11

Do not be so afraid of what you are to suffer. See! The devil is going to throw some of you into prison to be tested there and for ten days to suffer pressing troubles. Each one of you must prove to be faithful, even if you have to die, and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 12:11

But they have conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the message to which they bore testimony, because they did not cling to life but courted death.