Thematic Bible: Suffering for righteousness' sake
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Saints despised
what the world calls of low degree, yea, what it counts as nothing and what it thinks does not exist, God chose to put a stop to what it thinks exists,
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When we are slandered by them, we try to conciliate them. To this very hour we have been made the filth of the world, the scum of the universe!
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Persecution » General references to
Suffering for righteousness' sake » Persecution » Predicted concerning the church
Do not be so afraid of what you are to suffer. See! The devil is going to throw some of you into prison to be tested there and for ten days to suffer pressing troubles. Each one of you must prove to be faithful, even if you have to die, and I will give you the crown of life.
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At that time they will turn you over to torture, and will murder you, and you will be hated by all the heathen, because you bear my name.
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Be on your guard against men, for they will turn you over to the courts and will flog you in their synagogues,
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But before all this takes place, people will arrest you and persecute you, and turn you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.
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Remember what I once told you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too.
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Men will turn you out of their synagogues. Yes, indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that he is rendering a religious service to God.
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Yes, indeed, everyone who wants to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Reproach suffered
If you are suffering abuse because you bear the name of Christ, you are happy, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.
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Blessed are you when people hate you and exclude you and denounce you, and spurn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.
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and thought the reproach endured for the Christ was greater wealth than all the treasures in Egypt, for he kept his eye upon the reward.
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To this end we are toiling and struggling, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Saviour of all mankind, especially of believers.
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partly by being exposed as a public spectacle to insults and violent sufferings, and partly by showing yourselves ready to share with those who were living in this condition.
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Let us, therefore, go to Him outside the camp, enduring the reproach that He endured;
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Martyrdom » General references to
Then Paul answered, "What do you mean by crying and breaking my heart? Why, I am ready not only to be bound at Jerusalem but to die there for the sake of the Lord Jesus."
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If I should dole out everything I have for charity, and give my body up to torture in mere boasting pride, but have no love, I get from it no good at all.
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Then I saw thrones and those who were seated on them, and permission was granted them to pass judgment, even those who had been beheaded for bearing testimony to Jesus and for preaching the word of God, who refused to worship the wild beast and his statue, and would not let his mark be stamped upon their foreheads and upon their hands. They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
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One brother will turn another over to death, and a father his child, and children will take a stand against their parents, and will have them put to death.
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When He broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered for being faithful to God's message and for the testimony they bore to it.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Persecution » Of Christ
Then Herod and his bodyguard treated Him with contempt and made sport of Him and put a gorgeous robe on Him and sent Him back to Pilate.
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This is why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He persisted in doing such things on the Sabbath.
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and they rose up and drove Him out of town and took Him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, to hurl Him down the cliff.
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After this, Jesus went on moving about in Galilee; He would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill Him.
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I know that you are Abraham's descendants, and yet you are trying to kill me, because there is no room in you for my teaching.
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Once more they were trying to arrest Him, but He escaped from their hands.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Of the jews smiting of the righteous » General references to
At this the high priest Ananias ordered the people standing near him to strike him on the mouth.
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And they spit on Him, and took the stick and kept hitting Him on the head.
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After He had said this, one of the attendants standing by slapped Jesus in the face, and said, "Is this the way you answer the high priest?"
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » death
For it has been graciously granted to you for Christ's sake, not only to trust in Him but also to suffer for Him,
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For all the time I continue to live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that in my mortal lower nature the life of Jesus may be clearly shown.
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So I most happily boast about my weaknesses, so that the strength of Christ may overshadow me. That is why I take such pleasure in weaknesses, insults, distresses, persecution, and difficulties, which I endure for Christ's sake, for it is when I am consciously weak that I am really strong.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Examples of
He had James the brother of John murdered with a sword,
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They were stoned to death, they were tortured to death, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. With nothing on their bodies but skins of sheep or goats they wandered here and there, destitute, oppressed, mistreated --
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When He broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered for being faithful to God's message and for the testimony they bore to it.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Loss of reputation
For I am not proclaiming myself but Christ Jesus as Lord, and myself a slave of yours for Jesus' sake.
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For we have become a spectacle to the universe, to angels as well as men. For Christ's sake we are held as fools, while you through union with Christ are men of wisdom. We are weak; you are strong. You are held in honor; we in dishonor.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Of the jews smiting of the righteous » Upon the cheek
To the man who strikes you on one cheek, offer him the other too; and from the man who takes away your coat, do not keep back your shirt either,
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Examples of » Zechariah
Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Renunciation of worldly treasures
And everyone who has given up home or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms, for my sake, will receive many times as much, and in addition will be in possession of eternal life.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Loss of life
Anybody who gains his lower life will lose the higher life, and anybody who loses his lower life for my sake will gain the higher life.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Hatred
And you will be hated by all men, because you bear my name, but whoever bears up to the end will be saved.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Persecution
"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and keep on falsely telling all sorts of evil against you for my sake.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Examples of » Abel
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against the men of this age.
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure » Suffering
For I am going to show him how great are the sufferings he must endure for my name's sake."
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Examples of » John the baptist
and so at once ordered a soldier of his guard to bring his head. The soldier went off and beheaded John in the prison
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Suffering for righteousness' sake » Examples of » Stephen
and dragged him out of the city and continued stoning him. The witnesses, in the meantime, laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.
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