39 He who preserves his life, shall lose it: but he who loses his life, on my account, shall preserve it.
29 For to you it is graciously given, on the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
3 And though I spend all my goods in feeding the poor, and though I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I am nothing profited.
5 For as the sufferings for Christ abound in us, also, our consolation abounds through Christ.
17 For our momentary light afflictions work out for us an eternal weight of glory, great beyond expression;
1 Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, do you also warm yourselves with the same mind: for he who has suffered in the flesh, has ceased from sin;
21 Besides, to this you were called; for even Christ suffered for us, leaving us a pattern, that you should follow his footsteps;
10 And may the God of all favor, who has called us to his eternal glory, by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, himself make you complete; support, strengthen, establish you:
22 Having, therefore, obtained help from God, I continue, till this day, testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses have declared would be;
23 that the Messiah would be a sufferer-would be first of a resurrection from the dead-would give light to the people, and to the Gentiles.
2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
10 that I might know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death;
14 Nevertheless, although you even suffer for righteousness' sake, you are happy. Therefore, do not fear their fear, neither be troubled:
28 And having stripped him, they robed him in a scarlet cloak,
29 and crowned him with a wreath of thorns, and put a rod in his right hand, and kneeling before him in mockery. cried, Hail, King of the Jews!
3 and not only so, but we rejoice even in afflictions; knowing that affliction produces patience;
4 and patience, approbation; and approbation, hope.
18 However, I esteem not the sufferings of the present time, as worthy of comparison with the glory, which is hereafter to be revealed in us.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies, and the God of all consolation!
4 who comforts us in all out affliction, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any affliction, by the consolation with which they are comforted of God.
23 And in hades, being in torments, he looked up, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom,
24 and cried, saying, Have pity on me, father Abraham, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tortured in this flame.
38 He who will not take his cross and follow me, is not worthy of me.