10 Bible Verses about Rejoicing In Tribulation

And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,

Rejoice in hope; be patient under affliction; continue stedfast in prayer.

"Rejoice and exult in it, because your reward was great in the heavens; for so did they persecute the prophets before you.

"Rejoice in that day and exult, For your reward is great in heaven; For even so did their fathers to the prophets.

So they left Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been deemed worthy to suffer disgrace for the sake of the Name;

had many lashes inflicted upon them, and put them in prison, with a charge to the jailer to keep them safe. On receiving so strict an order he cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. But at midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,

as grieved, but always glad; as poor, but making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings on your behalf; and I am filling up in my own body what is yet lacking of the sufferings of Christ in behalf of the church, his Body.

For you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you did take joyfully the confiscation of your goods; conscious that you had for yourselves greater, even lasting possessions.

Do not think it strange, beloved, that a fiery ordeal has come to test you, as though some surprising thing had befallen you. But be glad in the degree in which you share in the sufferings of Christ; so that when his glory shall be revealed, you too may be glad with triumphant gladness.