23 Bible Verses about Suffering For Christ's Sake

They therefore went their way from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be dishonoured for the name.

for I will shew to him how much he must suffer for my name.

And if children, heirs also: heirs of God, and Christ's joint heirs; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

According as it is written, For thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

(and our hope for you is sure;) or whether we are encouraged, it is for your encouragement and salvation: knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as being beside myself) I above measure so; in labours exceedingly abundant, in stripes to excess, in prisons exceedingly abundant, in deaths oft.

to know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

if we endure, we shall also reign together; if we deny, he also will deny us;

choosing rather to suffer affliction along with the people of God than to have the temporary pleasure of sin;

Take as an example, brethren, of suffering and having patience, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord.

For what glory is it, if sinning and being buffeted ye shall bear it? but if, doing good and suffering, ye shall bear it, this is acceptable with God.

But if also ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed are ye; but be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled;

but if as a christian, let him not be ashamed, but glorify God in this name.

But the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, when ye have suffered for a little while, himself shall make perfect, stablish, strengthen, ground:

Blessed are ye when they may reproach and persecute you, and say every wicked thing against you, lying, for my sake.

and ye shall be hated of all on account of my name. But he that has endured to the end, he shall be saved.

He that finds his life shall lose it, and he who has lost his life for my sake shall find it.

And every one who has left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit life eternal.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye prudent in Christ: we weak, but ye strong: ye glorious, but we in dishonour.

For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus Lord, and ourselves your bondmen for Jesus' sake.

for we who live are always delivered unto death on account of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh;

Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, in straits, for Christ: for when I am weak, then I am powerful.

because to you has been given, as regards Christ, not only the believing on him but the suffering for him also,