1 Thessalonians 3:3

Paul Sends Timothy To Thessalonica

² And sent Timothy, our Brother and God's minister of the Good News of the Christ, to strengthen you, and to encourage you in your faith, ³ So that none of you should be shaken by the troubles through which you are passing. You yourselves know that we are destined to meet with such things. ⁴ For, even while we were with you, we warned you beforehand that we were certain to encounter trouble. And so it proved, as you know.

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Acts 9:16

I will myself show him all that he has to suffer for my Name."

Acts 14:22

Reassuring the minds of the disciples, urging them to remain true to the Faith, and showing that it is only through many troubles that we can enter the Kingdom of God.

Acts 21:13

It was then that Paul made the reply: "Why are you weeping and breaking my heart like this? For my part, I am ready not only to be bound, but even to suffer death at Jerusalem for the Name of the Lord Jesus."

Matthew 10:16-18

Remember, I am sending you out as my Messengers like sheep among wolves. So be as wise as serpents, and as blameless as doves.

Matthew 24:9-10

When that time comes, they will give you up to persecution, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations on account of my Name.

Luke 21:12

Before all this, they will lay hands on you and persecute you, and they will betray you to Synagogues and put you in prison, when you will be brought before kings and governors for the sake of my Name.

John 15:19-21

If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world--that is why the world hates you.

John 16:33

I have spoken to you in this way, so that in me you may find peace. In the world you will find trouble; yet, take courage! I have conquered the world."

Romans 5:3

And not only that, but let us also exult in our troubles;

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my dear Brothers, stand firm, unshaken, always diligent in the Lord's work, for you know that, in union with him, your toil is not in vain.

2 Thessalonians 1:4

So much is this the case that we ourselves speak with pride, before the Churches of God, of the patience and faith which you have shown, in spite of all the persecutions and troubles that you are enduring.

2 Timothy 1:8

Do not, therefore, be ashamed of the testimony which we have to bear to our Lord, nor yet of me who am a prisoner for him; but join with me in suffering for the Good News, as far as God enables you.

John 16:2

They will expel you from their Synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will think that he is making an offering to God.

Acts 2:25

Indeed it was to him that David was referring when he said-- 'I have had the Lord ever before my eyes, For he stands at my right hand, that I should not be disquieted.

Acts 20:23-24

Except that in town after town the Holy Spirit plainly declares to me that imprisonment and troubles await me.

Acts 21:11

He came to see us, and, taking Paul's girdle, and binding his own feet and hands with it, said: "This is what the Holy Spirit says--'The man to whom this girdle belongs will be bound like this at Jerusalem by the Jews, and they will give him up to the Gentiles'."

Romans 8:35-37

Who is there to separate us from the love of the Christ? Will trouble, or difficulty, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?

1 Corinthians 4:9

For, as it seems to me, God has exhibited us, the Apostles, last of all, as men doomed to death. We are made a spectacle to the universe, both to angels and to men!

Ephesians 3:13

Therefore I beg you not to be disheartened at the sufferings that I am undergoing for your sakes; for they redound to your honor.

Philippians 1:28

Without ever shrinking from your opponents. To them this will be a sign of their Destruction and of your Salvation--a sign from God.

Colossians 1:23

If only you remain true to your Faith, firm and immovable, never abandoning the hope held out in the Good News to which you listened, which has been proclaimed among all created things under Heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

1 Thessalonians 5:9

For God destined us, not for Wrath, but to win Salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us,

2 Timothy 3:11-12

as well as of my persecutions, and of the sufferings which I met with at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know what persecutions I underwent; and yet the Lord brought me safe out of all!

1 Peter 2:21

For it was to this that you were called! For Christ, too, suffered--on your behalf--and left you an example, that you should follow in his steps.

1 Peter 4:12-14

Dear friends, do not be astonished at the fiery trials that you are passing through, to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.

Revelation 2:10

Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The Devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tempted, and may undergo persecution for ten days. Be faithful even to death, and I will give you the Crown of Life.

Revelation 2:13

I know where you dwell, where the Throne of Satan stands. And yet you hold to my Name, and you did not disown my Faith even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death among you where Satan dwells.