1 Thessalonians 3:3

Paul Sends Timothy To Thessalonica

² And sent Timotheus our brother and minister of God and our fellow-worker in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith, ³ That no one might be moved by these afflictions; for ye know that we are appointed hereto. ⁴ For when we were with you we told you before, we should be afflicted; as it came to pass, and ye know.

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Acts 9:16

For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.

Acts 14:22

Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith; and that we must through many tribulations enter into the kingdom of God.

Acts 21:13

But Paul answered, What mean ye, weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.

Matthew 10:16-18

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Matthew 24:9-10

Then shall they deliver you to be afflicted, and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

Luke 21:12

But before all these things they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my names sake.

John 15:19-21

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

John 16:33

I have spoken these things to you, that ye may have peace in me. In the world ye shall have tribulation; but take courage: I have overcome the world.

Romans 5:3

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also,

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.

2 Thessalonians 1:4

So that we ourselves glory of you in the churches of God, for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and sufferings which ye endure:

2 Timothy 1:8

Therefore be not thou ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel, according to the power of God, Who hath saved and called us with an holy calling,

John 16:2

yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you, will think he doth God service.

Acts 2:25

For David speaketh concerning him, I have seen the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right-hand, that I may not be moved.

Acts 20:23-24

Save that the Holy Ghost testifieth to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.

Acts 21:11

And coming to us, he took up Paul's girdle, and binding his own feet and hands, said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man whose girdle this is, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

Romans 8:35-37

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall affliction, or distress, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

1 Corinthians 4:9

For I think God hath set forth us the apostles last, as appointed to death; for we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

Ephesians 3:13

Wherefore I intreat you not to faint at my afflictions for you, which is your glory.

Philippians 1:28

And in nothing terrified by your adversaries, which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation.

Colossians 1:23

If ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and are not removed from the hope of the gospel which ye have heard, which is preached to every creature that is under heaven, whereof I Paul am made a minister.

1 Thessalonians 5:9

For God hath not appointed us to wrath,

2 Timothy 3:11-12

Persecutions, afflictions, which befel me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured; but the Lord delivered me out of all.

1 Peter 2:21

For even hereunto are ye called; for Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye might follow his steps:

1 Peter 4:12-14

Beloved, wonder not at the burning which is among you, which is for your trial, as if some strange thing befell you: But as ye partake of the sufferings of Christ,

Revelation 2:10

Fear none of those things which thou art about to suffer: behold the devil is about to cast some of you into prison that ye may be tried, and ye shall have affliction ten days: Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

Revelation 2:13

I know where thou dwellest, where the throne of Satan is; and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, in the days wherein Antipas, my faithful witness was, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.