Romans 8:35
What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword?
1 Corinthians 4:11
To this very hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and knocked about, we are waifs,
Matthew 5:10-12
Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of goodness! the Realm of heaven is theirs.
Matthew 10:28-31
Have no fear of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul: rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
Luke 21:12-18
But before all that, men will lay hands on you and persecute you, handing you over to synagogues and prisons; you will be dragged before kings and governors for the sake of my name.
John 10:28
and I give them eternal life; they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
John 13:1
Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;
John 16:33
I have said all this to you that in me you may have peace; in the world you have trouble, but courage! I have conquered the world.
Acts 14:22
strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to hold by the faith, and telling them that "we have to get into the Realm of God through many a trouble."
Acts 20:23-24
Only, I know this, that in town after town the holy Spirit testifies to me that bonds and troubles are awaiting me.
Romans 5:3-5
Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance,
Romans 8:17
and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ ??for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory.
Romans 8:39
no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Corinthians 4:17
The slight trouble of the passing hour results in a solid glory past all comparison,
2 Corinthians 6:4-10
I prove myself at all points a true minister of God, by great endurance, by suffering, by troubles, by calamities,
2 Corinthians 11:23-27
Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison ??a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;
2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth;
2 Thessalonians 2:16
And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope,
2 Timothy 1:12
and this is why I am suffering. Still, I am not ashamed of it; I know whom I have trusted and I am certain he is able to keep what I have put into his hands till the great Day.
2 Timothy 4:16-18
The first time I had to defend myself, I had no supporters; everyone deserted me. God grant it may not be brought up against them!
Hebrews 12:3-11
Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing.
James 1:2-4
Greet it as pure joy, my brothers, when you come across any sort of trial,
1 Peter 1:5-7
and the power of God protects you by faith till you do inherit the salvation which is all ready to be revealed at the last hour.
1 Peter 4:12-14
Beloved, do not be surprised at the ordeal that has come to test you, as though some foreign experience befell you.
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the prince over the kings of earth; to him who loves us and has loosed us from our sins by shedding his blood ??6 he has made us a realm of priests for his God and Father, ??to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever: Amen.
Revelation 7:14-17
I said to him, "You know, my lord." So he told me, "These are the people who have come out of the great Distress, who washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.