23 Bible Verses about Suffering For Christ's Sake

The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy of suffering dishonour for the sake of the Name;

I will show him all he has to suffer for the sake of my Name."

and if children, heirs as well, heirs of God, heirs along with Christ ??for we share his sufferings in order to share his glory.

(Because, as it is written, For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.)

Hence my hope for you is well-founded, since I know that as you share the sufferings you share the comfort also.

Ministers of Christ? yes perhaps, but not as much as I am (I am mad to talk like this!), with all my labours, with all my lashes, with all my time in prison ??a record longer far than theirs. I have been often at the point of death;

I would know him in the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, with my nature transformed to die as he died,

if we endure, then we shall reign with him, if we disown him, then he shall disown us,

ill-treatment with God's people he preferred to the passing pleasures of sin,

As an example of fortitude and endurance, brothers, take the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord.

Where is the credit in standing punishment for having done wrong? No, if you stand suffering for having done right, that is what God counts a merit.

Even supposing you have to suffer for the sake of what is right, still you are blessed. Have no fear of their threats, do not let that trouble you,

but if a man suffers for being a Christian, he must not be ashamed, he must rather glorify God for that.

Once you have suffered for a little, the God of all grace who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will repair and recruit and strengthen you.

Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake;

and you will be hated by all men on account of my name; but he will be saved who holds out to the very end.

He who has found his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Everyone who has left brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands or houses for my name's sake will get a hundred times as much and inherit life eternal.

We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools'; you in Christ are sensible. We are weak, you are strong; you are honoured, we are in disrepute.

(It is Christ Jesus as Lord, not myself, that I proclaim; I am simply a servant of yours for Jesus' sake.)

every day of my life I am being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may come out within my mortal flesh.

It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.

For on behalf of Christ you have the favour of suffering no less than of believing in him,