Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound at Jerusalem but to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus." Verse Concepts

Philippians 3:7-14

But for the sake of Christ I have come to count my former gains as loss. Why, I count everything as loss compared with the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything, and think it rubbish, in order to gain Christ and be known to be united to him, with any uprightness I may have not based on law but coming through faith in Christ??he uprightness that comes from God through faith. read more.
I want to know him in the power of resurrection, and to share his sufferings and even his death, in the hope of attaining resurrection from the dead. Not that I have secured it yet, or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, because I have been captured by Jesus Christ. Brothers, I do not consider that I have captured it yet, only, forgetting what is behind me, and straining toward what lies ahead, I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.

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Philippians 3:10

Self-righteousness » Not being self-righteousness via the law

Philippians 3:8-11

Why, I count everything as loss compared with the supreme advantage of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have lost everything, and think it rubbish, in order to gain Christ and be known to be united to him, with any uprightness I may have not based on law but coming through faith in Christ??he uprightness that comes from God through faith. I want to know him in the power of resurrection, and to share his sufferings and even his death, read more.
in the hope of attaining resurrection from the dead.

Self-righteousness » Saints renounce

Philippians 3:7-10

Suffering » For Christ

James 5:10

As an example, brothers, of ill-treatment patiently endured, take the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord. Verse Concepts

1 Peter 5:10

And God, the giver of all mercy, who through your union with Christ has called you to his eternal glory, after you have suffered a little while will himself make you perfect, steadfast, and strong. Verse Concepts

1 Peter 4:13-14

but be glad that you are in a measure sharing the sufferings of the Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may be triumphantly happy. If you are being abused for the sake of Christ, you are blessed, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.

Colossians 1:24

Philippians 1:29

For you have been granted the privilege not only of trusting in Christ but of suffering for him. Verse Concepts

2 Timothy 2:12

If we endure, we will reign with him! If we disown him, he will also disown us! Verse Concepts

Acts 9:16

For I am going to show him what he will have to endure for my sake." Verse Concepts

Philippians 3:10

Romans 8:26

In the same way the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit itself pleads for us with inexpressible yearnings, Verse Concepts

Romans 8:17-23

and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too. For I consider what we suffer now not to be compared with the glory that is to burst upon us. For creation is waiting with eager longing for the sons of God to be disclosed. read more.
For it was not the fault of creation that it was frustrated; it was by the will of him who condemned it to that, and in the hope that creation itself would be set free from its bondage to decay, and have the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that all creation has been groaning in agony together until now. More than that, we ourselves, though we have in the Spirit a foretaste of the future, groan to ourselves as we wait to be declared God's sons, through the redemption of our bodies.

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1 Corinthians 4:12-13

we have worked with our hands for a living. When people abuse us, we bless them, when they persecute us, we put up with it, when they slander us, we try to conciliate them. We have come to be like the scum of the earth, the dregs of the world, and we are so now.

2 Corinthians 1:7

My hopes for you are unshaken. For I know that just as surely as you share my sufferings, just so surely you will share my comfort. Verse Concepts

2 Corinthians 4:11-18

For every day I live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be visible in my mortal nature. So it is death that operates in my case, but life that operates in yours. In the same spirit of faith as his who said, "I believed, and so I spoke," I too believe, and so I speak, read more.
sure that he who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will raise me also like Jesus, and bring me side by side with you into his presence. For it is all for your benefit, in order that as God's favor reaches greater and greater numbers, it may result in more and more thanksgiving in praise of God. So I never lose heart. Though my outer nature is wasting away, my inner is being renewed every day. For this slight, momentary trouble is piling up for me an eternal blessedness beyond all comparison, because I keep my eyes not on what is seen but what is unseen. For what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.

Philippians 2:27-30

For he was sick, and nearly died, but God took pity on him, and not only on him, but on me, to save me from having one sorrow after another. So I am all the more eager to send him, so that you may have the pleasure of seeing him again, and I may feel more relieved. So give him a hearty Christian welcome, and value men like him very highly, read more.
for he came near dying for the Lord's work, and risked his life to make up for what was lacking in the service you have done me.

2 Thessalonians 1:4-5

As a result, we ourselves speak of you with pride in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in the face of all the persecutions and troubles you are having to endure. This is a proof of God's justice in judging, and it is to prove you worthy of the Kingdom of God, for the sake of which you are suffering,

Suffering » Those that suffer for jesus Christ

Romans 8:14-17

For all who are guided by God's Spirit are God's sons. It is not a consciousness of servitude that has been imparted to you, to fill you with fear again, but the consciousness of adoption as sons, which makes us cry, "Abba!" that is, Father. The Spirit itself testifies with our spirits that we are God's children, read more.
and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too.

1 Peter 4:1

Since Christ therefore has suffered in our physical nature, you must also arm yourselves with the same resolve. For he who suffers in his physical nature has done with sin, Verse Concepts

2 Corinthians 1:5

For if I have a liberal share of Christ's sufferings, through Christ I have a liberal share of comfort too. Verse Concepts

2 Timothy 2:10-12

For that reason I am ready to submit to anything for the sake of those whom God has chosen, so that they too may gain the salvation that comes through Christ Jesus and brings eternal glory. How true those words are! "If we have died with him, we will live with him! If we endure, we will reign with him! If we disown him, he will also disown us!

Revelation 2:8-10

"To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: " 'The first and the last, who died and came to life again, speaks thus: 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! Do not be afraid of what you are going to suffer. See! The devil is going to put some of you into prison to be tested there, and for ten days to endure persecution. Prove faithful even unto death and I will give you the crown of life.

Revelation 20:4-6

Then I saw thrones with beings seated on them, who were empowered to act as judges. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus and the message of God, who refused to worship the animal and its statue, and would not have its mark put on their foreheads or on their hands. They were restored to life and reigned with the Christ a thousand years. The rest of the dead were not restored to life until the thousand years were over. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is the man who experiences the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them; they will be priests of God and the Christ, and reign with him for the thousand years.

Philippians 3:7-10

1 Peter 3:12-17

For the eyes of the Lord are upon upright men, And his ears are open to their entreaty, But the Lord's face is set against men that do wrong." And who is there that can hurt you if you are eager to do what is right? Even if you should suffer for uprightness, you are blessed. But do not be afraid of them, nor be troubled, read more.
but reverence Christ in your hearts as Lord, and always be ready to make your defense to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that you have. But do so gently and respectfully, and keep your conscience clear, so that those who abuse your upright Christian conduct may be made ashamed of their slanders. For it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be God's will, than for doing wrong.