Matthew 24:9

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.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

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

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.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

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.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

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.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

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.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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

Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

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

Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

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

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!

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

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.

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

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

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

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.

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

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.

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.

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

Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

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.

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

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

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

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

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

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

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

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.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.

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

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

“Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.

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

Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”

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.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

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

Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For you will be safe with me.”

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.

Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

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

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.

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

When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

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.

If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.

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

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”

For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.