23 Bible Verses about Suffering For Christ's Sake

They therefore went away from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame in behalf of that name;

For I myself will show him how great things he must suffer for my names sake.

and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and fellowheirs with Christ; if indeed we are suffering with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

As it is written, "For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we were accounted as sheep for slaughter."

knowing that as ye are sharers in the sufferings, so also ye will be sharers in the comfort.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often;

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, while becoming like him in his death,

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

choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

Take, brethren, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, for an example of affliction, and of patience.

For what glory is it, if, when ye are beaten for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently [it is glory]; for this is acceptable with God.

But if ye even suffer for righteousness sake, happy are ye. And be not afraid at their terrors, nor alarmed;

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

But the God of all grace, who called you to his everlasting glory in Christ Jesus, will, after ye have suffered a while, himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you.

Blessed are ye, when men revile you, and persecute you, and say every thing that is bad against you, falsely, for my sake.

and ye will be hated by all on account of my name. But he that endureth to the end will be saved.

He that findeth his life will lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake will find it.

And every one who hath left brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, or houses, for the sake of my name, will receive many fold more, and will inherit everlasting life.

We are fools for Christs sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are in honor, but we are despised.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus sake.

For we who live are continually delivered up to death for Jesus sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses in behalf of Christ; for when I am weak, then am I strong.

for to you it was given in behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but in his behalf to suffer also;