23 Bible Verses about Suffering For Christ's Sake

So they went out from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer disgrace for Jesus' name;

For I am going to show him how great are the sufferings he must endure for my name's sake."

and if children, then also heirs, heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ if in reality we share His sufferings, so that we may share His glory too.

As the Scripture says: "For your sake we are being put to death the livelong day; we are treated like sheep to be slaughtered."

My hope for you is well founded; because I know that just as you, brothers, are sharers of my sufferings, so you will be sharers of my comfort too.

Are they ministers of Christ? So am I. I am talking like a man that has gone crazy -- as such I am superior! -- serving Him with labors greater by far, with far more imprisonments, with floggings vastly worse, and often at the point of death.

Yes, I long to come to know Him; that is, the power of His resurrection and so to share with Him his sufferings as to be continuously transformed by His death,

"If we patiently endure, we will reign with Him too. If we disown Him, He will disown us too.

because he preferred to suffer hardships with the people of God than to have the passing enjoyment that results from sin,

As an example of ill-treatment and patience, brothers, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.

For what credit is it to bear it patiently, if you do wrong and are beaten for it? But if you do right and patiently suffer for it, it is pleasing in the sight of God.

Instead, you are happy, even if you should suffer for doing right. Never be afraid of their threats, and never be disturbed,

but if anyone suffers for being a Christian, he must not be ashamed of it, but should keep on praising God for bearing this name.

And God, the giver of every spiritual blessing, who through your union with Christ has called you to His eternal glory, after you have suffered a little while, will Himself make you perfect, firm, and strong,

"Blessed are you when people abuse you, and persecute you, and keep on falsely telling all sorts of evil against you for my sake.

And you will be hated by all men, because you bear my name, but whoever bears up to the end will be saved.

Anybody who gains his lower life will lose the higher life, and anybody who loses his lower life for my sake will gain the higher life.

And everyone who has given up home or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms, for my sake, will receive many times as much, and in addition will be in possession of eternal life.

For we have become a spectacle to the universe, to angels as well as men. For Christ's sake we are held as fools, while you through union with Christ are men of wisdom. We are weak; you are strong. You are held in honor; we in dishonor.

For I am not proclaiming myself but Christ Jesus as Lord, and myself a slave of yours for Jesus' sake.

For all the time I continue to live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that in my mortal lower nature the life of Jesus may be clearly shown.

So I most happily boast about my weaknesses, so that the strength of Christ may overshadow me. That is why I take such pleasure in weaknesses, insults, distresses, persecution, and difficulties, which I endure for Christ's sake, for it is when I am consciously weak that I am really strong.

For it has been graciously granted to you for Christ's sake, not only to trust in Him but also to suffer for Him,