23 Bible Verses about Suffering For Christ's Sake

they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,

for I will shew him how many things it behoveth him for My name to suffer.'

and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.

(according as it hath been written -- 'For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')

and our hope is stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings -- so also of the comfort.

ministrants of Christ are they? -- as beside myself I speak -- I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

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

if we do endure together -- we shall also reign together; if we deny him, he also shall deny us;

having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season,

An example take ye of the suffering of evil, my brethren, and of the patience, the prophets who did speak in the name of the Lord;

for what renown is it, if sinning and being buffeted, ye do endure it? but if, doing good and suffering for it, ye do endure, this is gracious with God,

but if ye also should suffer because of righteousness, happy are ye! and of their fear be not afraid, nor be troubled,

and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him glorify God in this respect;

And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you;

Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake --

and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.

'He who found his life shall lose it, and he who lost his life for my sake shall find it.

and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;

we are fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we are ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;

for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,

wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

because to you it was granted, on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also on behalf of him to suffer;