30 Bible Verses about Christ's Disciples Will Suffer
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But as for you, be serious about everything, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
I will show him how much he must suffer for My name!”
For it has been given to you on Christ’s behalf not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him,
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.
Summoning the crowd along with His disciples, He said to them, “If anyone wants to be My follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.
Then He said to them all, “If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me.
so that no one will be shaken by these persecutions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed to this.
In fact, when we were with you, we told you previously that we were going to suffer persecution, and as you know, it happened.
So don’t be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, or of me His prisoner. Instead, share in suffering for the gospel, relying on the power of God.
So if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
Yet he has no root in himself, but is short-lived. When pressure or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he stumbles.
“Then they will hand you over for persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of My name.
except that in town after town the Holy Spirit testifies to me that chains and afflictions are waiting for me.
Therefore, brothers, in all our distress and persecution, we were encouraged about you through your faith.
You rejoice in this, though now for a short time you have had to struggle in various trials
For it brings favor if, mindful of God’s will, someone endures grief from suffering unjustly.
But even if you should suffer for righteousness, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear or be disturbed,
For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.
None of you, however, should suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or a meddler. But if anyone suffers as a “Christian,” he should not be ashamed but should glorify God in having that name. For the time has come for judgment to begin with God’s household, and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?
So those who suffer according to God’s will should, while doing what is good, entrust themselves to a faithful Creator.
Now the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will personally restore, establish, strengthen, and support you after you have suffered a little.
For what credit is there if you sin and are punished, and you endure it? But when you do what is good and suffer, if you endure it, this brings favor with God.
And not only that, but we also rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance,
But as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything:
by great endurance, by afflictions,
by hardship, by difficulties,
We are pressured in every way but not crushed; we are perplexed but not in despair;
For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory.
And our hope for you is firm, because we know that as you share in the sufferings, so you will share in the comfort.
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