7 Bible Verses about Sufferings Rewarded

"Blessed are you when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my name's sake.

"Rejoice and exult in it, because your reward was great in the heavens; for so did they persecute the prophets before you.

and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ; but to share his glory, we must now be sharing his sufferings.

If we endure suffering, we shall also reign with him. If we disown him, he too will disown us.

For you did sympathize with the prisoners, and you did take joyfully the confiscation of your goods; conscious that you had for yourselves greater, even lasting possessions.

He accounted the obloquy of Christ to be greater than the treasures of Egypt; for he fixed his eyes on the reward.

And I saw thrones, and those who sat on them, and they were permitted to judge; and I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the Word of God, those who did not worship the beast nor his image, and who did not receive his brand upon their brow, or hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.