Romans 8:35
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? [Will] affliction or distress or persecution or hunger or lack of sufficient clothing or danger or the sword?
1 Corinthians 4:11
Until the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty and poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless,
Psalm 103:17
But the loyal love of Yahweh [is] from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to [their] children's children,
Jeremiah 31:3
From afar Yahweh appeared to me, [saying], "I have loved you [with] an everlasting love. {Therefore} I have drawn you [with] loyal love.
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed [are] those who are persecuted because of righteousness, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 10:28-31
And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul, but instead be afraid of the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Luke 21:12-18
"But before all these [things], they will lay their hands on you and will persecute [you], handing [you] over to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.
John 10:28
And I give them eternal life, and they will never perish {forever}, and no one will seize them out of my hand.
John 13:1
Now before the feast of Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, [and] having loved [his] own in the world, loved them to the end.
John 16:33
I have said these [things] to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world."
Acts 14:22
strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging [them] to continue in the faith and [saying], "Through many persecutions it is necessary [for] us to enter into the kingdom of God."
Acts 20:23-24
except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in town [after town], saying that bonds and persecutions await me.
Romans 5:3-5
And not only [this], but we also boast in our afflictions, [because we] know that affliction produces patient endurance,
Romans 8:17
and if children, also heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer together [with him] so that we may also be glorified together [with him].
Romans 8:39
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Corinthians 4:17
For our momentary light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory {beyond all measure and proportion},
2 Corinthians 6:4-10
but commending ourselves as servants of God in every [way], in much endurance, in afflictions, in distresses, in difficulties,
2 Corinthians 11:23-27
Are they servants of Christ?--I am speaking as though I were beside myself--I [am] more so, with far greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with beatings to a much greater degree, in [danger of] death many times.
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
But we ought to give thanks to God always concerning you, brothers [dearly] loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you [as] first fruits for salvation by the sanctification of the Spirit and faith in the truth,
2 Thessalonians 2:16
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given [us] eternal encouragement and good hope by grace,
2 Timothy 1:12
for which reason also I suffer these [things]. But [I am] not ashamed, because I know in whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard [what] I have entrusted until that day.
2 Timothy 4:16-18
At my first defense, no one came to my [aid], but [they] all deserted me; may it not be counted against them.
Hebrews 12:3-11
For consider the one who endured such hostility by sinners against himself, so that you will not grow weary in your souls [and] give up.
James 1:2-4
Consider [it] all joy, my brothers, whenever you encounter various trials,
1 Peter 1:5-7
who are being protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time,
1 Peter 4:12-14
Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, [when it] takes place to test you, as [if] [something] strange were happening to you.
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and released us from our sins by his blood
Revelation 7:14-17
And I said to him, "My lord, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.