2 Corinthians 4:11

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

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.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, will save it.

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

He caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and behold, they were very dry.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

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

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

For indeed we who are in this tent do groan, being burdened, not that we desire to be unclothed, but that we desire to be clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake.

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

As we have borne the image of those made of dust, let’s also bear the image of the heavenly.

But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

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.