Revelation 2:9
I know your persecution and your poverty??ut you are rich! I know the reviling of those who say that they themselves are Jews, when they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.
Revelation 3:9
Behold, I am making those of the synagogue of Satan, those who say they are Jews, but are not, but are lying; behold, I will make them to come and bow in reverence before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
2 Corinthians 6:10
as grieved, but always glad; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.
2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he was rich, for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
James 2:5-6
Listen, my dear brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and to inherit the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?
Luke 6:20
Then raising his eyes upon his disciples he began to say to them. "Blessed are you 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 outward in the flesh;
1 Timothy 6:18
Charge them to practise benevolence, to be rich in good works, to be open-handed and generous,
Revelation 3:17-18
For you keep saying, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and do not know that you are the wretched one, and pitiable and beggared and blind and naked.
Matthew 4:10
"Begone, Satan!" answered Jesus, for it is written, "Thou must worship the Lord thy God, and Him only must thou serve."
Luke 4:18
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me Because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to the prisoners, And recovery of sight to the blind; To set at liberty those that are bruised,
Luke 12:21
"So is he that lays up treasures for himself and is not rich toward God."
Luke 22:65
And they said many other insulting things against him.
John 16:33
I have said all this to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be courageous; I have overcome the world."
Acts 14:22
Everywhere they strengthened the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold to the faith. "It is through many tribulations," they said, "that we must enter into the kingdom of God."
Acts 26:11
"In all the synagogues also I punished them oftentimes, and tried to make them blaspheme; and in my mad fury I was pursuing them even to foreign cities.
Romans 2:17
Now if you bear the name of a Jew, and rely upon law, and boast yourself in God,
Romans 5:3
And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,
Romans 8:35
What shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall anguish, or calamity, or persecution, or famine? Shall nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans 9:6
It is not, however, as though God's word had failed! For they are not all Israel who have sprung from Israel;
Romans 12:12
Rejoice in hope; be patient under affliction; continue stedfast in prayer.
2 Corinthians 8:2
For although in heavy trial of affliction, their overbrimming happiness, even in spite of their deep poverty, abounded to the opulence of their unselfishness.
1 Thessalonians 3:4
For even when I was with you I used to tell you beforehand that I was to suffer affliction; and so it proved, as you know.
2 Thessalonians 1:6-7
For truly God's justice must render back trouble to those who are troubling you,
1 Timothy 1:13
although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.
Revelation 2:2
I know your works and your toil and stedfastness, and that you cannot endure evil men, and that you tested those who called themselves apostles, though they are not, and how you found them false.
Revelation 7:14
And I said to him, "You know, my Lord." And he said to me, "These are those who have come out of the great persecution, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.