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Eph 3 13 |
I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for
you, which are your glory. |
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I Tim 3 12 |
In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be
persecuted, |
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I Pet 4 16 |
However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God
that you bear that name. |
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I Pet 4 19 |
So then, those who suffer according to God's will should commit themselves
to their faithful Creator and continue to do good. |
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Rom 8 18 |
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the
glory that will be revealed in us. |
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I Pet 1 6-7 |
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have
had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your
faith--of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by
fire--may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when
Jesus Christ is revealed. |
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2 Cor 12 7-10 |
To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great
revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to
torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he
said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect
in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my
weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's
sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in
difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. |
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Mt 24 9 |
Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you
will be hated by all nations because of me. |
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Acts 9 15-16 |
But the Lord said to Ananias, "Go! This man is my chosen instrument
to carry my name before the Gentiles and their kings and before the people of
Israel. I will show him how much he must suffer for my name. |
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Act 14 21-22 |
They preached the good news in that city and won a large number of
disciples. Then they returned to Lystra , Iconium and Antioch, strengthening
the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. "We must
go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God," they said. |
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II Cor 1 8 |
We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we
suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our
ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. |
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II Tim 3 10-12 |
You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose,
faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, sufferings--what kinds of
things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I
endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. In fact, everyone who wants
to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, |
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Job 23 10 |
But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth
as gold. |
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I The 3 2-4 |
We sent Timothy, who is our brother and God's fellow worker in spreading
the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith, so that no
one would be unsettled by these trials. You know quite well that we were
destined for them. In fact, when we were with you, we kept telling you that we
would be persecuted. And it turned out that way, as you well know. |
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Acts 4 2-3 |
They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people
and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead. They seized Peter and
John, and because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day.
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Acts 5 30-33 |
The God of our fathers raised Jesus from the dead--whom you had killed by
hanging him on a tree. God exalted him to his own right hand as Prince and
Savior that he might give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel. We are
witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to
those who obey him When they heard this, they were furious and wanted to put
them to death |
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Acts 5 14-18 |
Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were
added to their number. As a result, people brought the sick into the streets
and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on
some of them as he passed by. Crowds gathered also from the towns around
Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by evil spirits, and all of
them were healed. Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members
of the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They arrested the
apostles and put them in the public jail. |
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Acts 5 38-42 |
Therefore, in the present case I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let
them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But
if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find
yourselves fighting against God. His speech persuaded them. They called the
apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered Them not to speak in the
name of Jesus, and let them go. The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing
because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.Day
after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped
teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ. |
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Acts 7 51-62 |
You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just
like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit!Was there ever a prophet
your fathers did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming
of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him-- you who have
received the law that was put into effect through angels but have not obeyed
it.When they heard this, they were furious and gnashed their teeth at him. But
Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked up to heaven and saw the glory of God,
and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. "Look," he said, "I
see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God At this
they covered their ears and, yelling at the top of their voices, they all
rushed at him, dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile,
the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. While
they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my
spirit." Then he fell on his knees and cried out, "Lord, do not hold
this sin against them." When he had said this, he fell asleep. |
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Acts 8 1-3 |
And Saul was there, giving approval to his death. On that day a great
persecution broke out against the church at Jerusalem, and all except the
apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.Godly men buried Stephen
and mourned deeply for him. But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from
house to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison. |
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Acts 9 22-26 |
Yet Saul grew more and more powerful and baffled the Jews living in
Damascus by proving that Jesus is the Christ. After many days had gone by, the
Jews conspired to kill him, but Saul learned of their plan. Day and night they
kept close watch on the city gates in order to kill him. But his followers took
him by night and lowered him in a basket through an opening in the wall. When
he came to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid
of him, not believing that he really was a disciple. |
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Acts 12 1-5 |
It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the
church, intending to persecute them. He had James, the brother of John, put to
death with the sword. When he saw that this pleased the Jews, he proceeded to
seize Peter also. This happened during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. After
arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four
squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial
after the Passover. So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly
praying to God for him. |
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Acts 13 50-51 |
But the Jews incited the God-fearing women of high standing and the leading
men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and
expelled them from their region. So they shook the dust from their feet in
protest against them and went to Iconium. |
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Acts 14 3-5 |
So Paul and Barnabas spent considerable time there, speaking boldly for the
Lord, who confirmed the message of his grace by enabling them to do miraculous
signs and wonders. The people of the city were divided; some sided with the
Jews, others with the apostles. There was a plot afoot among the Gentiles and
Jews, together with their leaders, to mistreat them and stone them |
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Acts 14 18-20 |
Even with these words, they had difficulty keeping the crowd from
sacrificing to them. Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium and won the
crowd over. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, thinking he was
dead. But after the disciples had gathered around him, he got up and went back
into the city. The next day he and Barnabas left for Derbe. |
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Heb 10 32-35 |
Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you
stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering. Sometimes you
were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side
by side with those who were so treated. You sympathized with those in prison
and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that
you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. So do not throw away your
confidence; it will be richly rewarded |
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Heb 2 18 |
Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those
who are being tempted. |
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2 Cor 4 7-18 |
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing
power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not
crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck
down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus,
so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are
alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life
may be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life
is at work in you. It is written: "I believed; therefore I have
spoken." With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore
speak, because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead
will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. All this
is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people
may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God. Therefore we do not
lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being
renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us
an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is
seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen
is eternal. |
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Heb 13 11 - 15 |
The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a
sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. And so Jesus also
suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood.
Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. For
here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is
to come. Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice
of praise--the fruit of lips that confess his name |
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II Cor 11 22-31 |
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they Abraham's
descendants? So am I. Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk
like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder, been in prison more
frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and
again. Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. Three
times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked,
I spent a night and a day in the open sea, I have been constantly on the move.
I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my
own countrymen, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in
the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false brothers. I have
labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and
thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked. Besides
everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.
Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not inwardly
burn? If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. The
God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is to be praised forever, knows that I am
not lying. |
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