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Romans 5:3
Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
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2 Timothy 1 8
Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,
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2 Corinthians 7 4
Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
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Philippians 3:10
that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,
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2 Corinthians 1 5-2 Corinthians 1 8
For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
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Colossians 1:18
He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.
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Ephesians 3:13
Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
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2 Timothy 2 9-2 Timothy 2 10
in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
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James 1:2
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
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Matthew 5:11-12
“ Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
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Acts 5:41
They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.
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Philippians 2:17-18
Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.
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Ephesians 3:1
For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,
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2 Corinthians 11 23-2 Corinthians 11 27
Are they servants of Christ?( I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
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2 Corinthians 4 8-2 Corinthians 4 12
We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.So then death works in us, but life in you.
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Ephesians 1:23
which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.