Revelation 2:9
"I know your suffering and your poverty though you are rich and the slander committed by those who claim to be Jews but are not. They are the synagogue of Satan.
Revelation 3:9
I will make those who belong to the synagogue of Satan those who claim to be Jews and aren't, but are lying come and bow down at your feet. Then they will realize that I have loved you.
2 Corinthians 6:10
as sorrowful and yet always rejoicing, as poor and yet enriching many, as having nothing and yet possessing everything.
2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah. Although he was rich, for your sakes he became poor, so that you, through his poverty, might become rich.
James 2:5-6
Listen, my dear brothers! God has chosen the poor in the world to become rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who keep on loving him, has he not?
Luke 6:20
Then Jesus looked at his disciples and said, "How blessed are you who are destitute, because the kingdom of God is yours!
Romans 2:28-29
For a person is not a Jew because of his appearance, nor is circumcision something just external and physical.
1 Timothy 6:18
They are to do good, to be rich in good actions, to be generous, and to share.
Revelation 3:17-18
You say, "I am rich. I have become wealthy. I don't need anything." Yet you don't realize that you are miserable, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
Matthew 4:10
Then Jesus told him, "Go away, Satan! Because it is written, "You must worship the Lord your God and serve only him.'"
Luke 4:18
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; he has anointed me to tell the good news to the poor. He has sent me to announce release to the prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, to set oppressed people free,
Luke 12:21
That's how it is with the person who stores up treasures for himself rather than with God."
Luke 22:65
And they kept insulting him in many other ways.
John 16:33
I have told you this so that through me you may have peace. In the world you'll have trouble, but be courageous I've overcome the world!"
Acts 14:22
strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. "We must endure many hardships," they said, "to get into the kingdom of God."
Acts 26:11
I would even punish them frequently in every synagogue and try to make them blaspheme. Raging furiously against them, I would hunt them down even in distant cities.
Romans 2:17
Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the Law, and boast about God,
Romans 5:3
Not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
Romans 8:35
Who will separate us from the Messiah's love? Can trouble, distress, persecution, hunger, nakedness, danger, or a violent death do this?
Romans 9:6
Now it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all Israelis truly belong to Israel,
Romans 12:12
Be joyful in hope, patient in trouble, and persistent in prayer.
2 Corinthians 8:2
In spite of their terrible ordeal of suffering, their abundant joy and deep poverty have led them to be abundantly generous.
1 Thessalonians 3:4
In fact, when we were with you, we told you ahead of time that we were going to suffer persecution. And as you know, that is what happened.
2 Thessalonians 1:6-7
Certainly it is right for God to pay back those who afflict you with affliction,
1 Timothy 1:13
In the past I was a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man. But I received mercy because I acted ignorantly in my unbelief,
Revelation 2:2
"I know what you've been doing, your toil, and your endurance. I also know that you cannot tolerate evil people. You have tested those who call themselves apostles, but are not, and have found them to be false.
Revelation 7:14
I told him, "Sir, you know."