29 For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,
39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
19 The LORD is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
3 And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but that man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.
17 "Behold, happy is the man whom God reproves; therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty.
3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
5 For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
1 Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same thought, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
17 For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
21 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
10 And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, establish, and strengthen you.
22 To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass:
23 that the Christ must suffer, and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to the people and to the Gentiles."
2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
14 But even if you do suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,
4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
3 He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
28 And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe upon him,
29 and plaiting a crown of thorns they put it on his head, and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him they mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
3 More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
20 Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell upon the ground, and worshiped.
21 And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return; the LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."
38 and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
18 I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
23 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw Abraham far off and Laz'arus in his bosom.
24 And he called out, Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Laz'arus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.'
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.