10 Bible Verses about Rejoicing In Tribulation

And not only that, but let us also exult in our troubles;

Rejoicing in your hope; steadfast under persecution; persevering in prayer;

Be glad and rejoice, because your reward in Heaven will be great; for so men persecuted the Prophets who lived before you.

Then indeed you may be glad and dance for joy, for be sure that your reward in Heaven will be great; for that is what their ancestors did to the Prophets.

But the Apostles left the Council, rejoicing that they had been thought worthy to suffer disgrace for that Name;

After beating them severely, the Magistrates put them in prison, with orders to the Governor of the Jail to keep them in safe custody. On receiving so strict an order, the Governor put them into the inner cell, and secured their feet in the stocks. About midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and while the prisoners were listening to them,

As saddened, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things!

Now at last I can rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and in my own person I supplement the afflictions endured by the Christ, for the sake of his Body, the Church;

For you not only sympathized with those who were in prison, but you even took the confiscation of your possessions joyfully, knowing, as you did, that you had in yourselves a greater possession and a lasting one.

Dear friends, do not be astonished at the fiery trials that you are passing through, to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. No, the more you share the sufferings of the Christ, the more may you rejoice, that, when the time comes for the manifestation of his Glory, you may rejoice and exult.