He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.
For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God th
Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to yo
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials
We are obligated to thank God for you all the time, brothers, as is fitting, because your faith is growing more and more
As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart s
Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have receive
my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me, His prisoner. Instead, join me in suffering for the gospel
And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian wh
But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received b
Remember the early days that you were in the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in the face of suffering
So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions for
for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires.
You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.
I only know that in town after town the Holy Spirit warns me that chains and afflictions await me.
Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight I desired has turned to horror.
They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatsk
There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickl
The nobles of the nations have assembled as the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth belong to God
They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merr
And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that w