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Acts 14:22
strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

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Deuteronomy 4:30
When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God and listen to his voice.

Matthew 24:21
for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.

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Matthew 5:12
Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Matthew 24:9
“Then they will deliver you up to oppression and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

Romans 5:4
and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;

James 5:10
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

1 Peter 1:6
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

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Matthew 5:20
For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Mark 10:21
Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”

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Matthew 21:31
Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

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John 21:16
He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”

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Acts 2:40
With many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

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Acts 3:7
He took him by the right hand and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.

1 Peter 5:9
Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

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Acts 13:43
Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

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Acts 14:25
When they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.

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Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Romans 8:36
Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

Romans 8:37
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

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John 12:25
He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.

Acts 20:23
except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

2 Corinthians 4:8
We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

2 Corinthians 4:9
pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

2 Corinthians 4:10
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.

2 Corinthians 4:11
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.

Philippians 1:29
Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

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,

2 Timothy 3:11
persecutions, and sufferings—those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

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1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

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2 Thessalonians 1:7
and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,

Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

Revelation 1:6
and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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2 Thessalonians 3:12
Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.

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Hebrews 12:7
It is for discipline that you endure. God deals with you as with children, for what son is there whom his father doesn’t discipline?

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Hebrews 12:11
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

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