Revelation 2:9
I know of your distress and poverty??hough you are rich!?? know how you are slandered by those who claim to be Jews when they are not so, but only a synagogue of Satan!
Revelation 3:9
I will make some who belong to that synagogue of Satan and claim to be Jews when they are not so, but are lying?? will make them come and bow down at your feet, and learn that I loved you.
2 Corinthians 6:10
pained, when I am always glad, poor, when I make many others rich, penniless, when really I own everything.
2 Corinthians 8:9
You know how gracious the Lord Jesus Christ was. Though he was rich, he became poor for your sake, in order that by his poverty you might become rich.
James 2:5-6
Listen, my dear brothers. Has not God chosen the world's poor to be rich in faith, and to possess the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?
Luke 6:20
Then he fixed his eyes on his disciples, and said, "Blessed are you who are poor, for the Kingdom of God is yours!
Romans 2:28-29
For the real Jew is not the man who is one outwardly, and the real circumcision is not something physical and external.
1 Timothy 6:18
Charge them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, open-handed and generous,
Revelation 3:17-18
Because you say, "I am rich, I have become wealthy, I need nothing," and you do not know that it is you that are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked,
Matthew 4:10
Then Jesus said to him, "Begone, Satan! For the Scripture says, 'You must do homage to the Lord your God, and worship him alone!' "
Luke 4:18
"The spirit of the Lord is upon me, For he has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor, He has sent me to announce to the prisoners their release and to the blind the recovery of their sight, To set the down-trodden at liberty,
Luke 12:21
That is the way with the man who lays up money for himself, and is not rich with God."
Luke 22:65
And they said many other abusive things to him.
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."
Acts 14:22
reassuring the disciples and encouraging them to stand by the faith and reminding them that we have to undergo many hardships to get into the Kingdom of God.
Acts 26:11
and many a time in all the synagogues I had them punished, and tried to force them to say impious things. In my extreme rage against them I even pursued them to distant towns.
Romans 2:17
Suppose you call yourself a Jew, and rely on law, and boast about God,
Romans 5:3
More than that, we ought to glory in our troubles, for we know that trouble produces endurance,
Romans 8:35
Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can trouble or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?
Romans 9:6
Not that God's message has failed. For not everybody who is descended from Israel really belongs to Israel,
Romans 12:12
Be happy in your hope, steadfast in time of trouble, persistent in prayer.
2 Corinthians 8:2
for in spite of a severe ordeal of trouble, their extraordinary gladness, combined with their extreme poverty, has overflowed in a wealth of generosity.
1 Thessalonians 3:4
for when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were going to have trouble, and it came true, as you know.
2 Thessalonians 1:6-7
since God considers it only just to repay with suffering those who are making you suffer
1 Timothy 1:13
though I once used to abuse, persecute, and insult him. But he had mercy on me, because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief,
Revelation 2:2
I know what you have done; your hard work and your endurance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, and that you have tested those who claimed to be apostles when they were not, and have found them to be impostors.
Revelation 7:14
I said to him, "You know, my lord." He said to me, "They are the people who come through the great persecution, who have washed their robes white in the blood of the Lamb.