Psalm 34:19
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19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
but the Lord rescues them from them all.(A)
Psalm 34:17
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17 When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears
and rescues them from all their troubles.(A)
1 Peter 4:12-13
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Suffering as a Christian
12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. 13 But rejoice insofar as you are sharing Christ’s sufferings, so that you may also be glad and shout for joy when his glory is revealed.(A)
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2 Corinthians 4:17
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17 For our slight, momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure,(A)
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John 16:33
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33 I have said this to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you face persecution, but take courage: I have conquered the world!”(A)
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Psalm 34:6
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6 This poor soul cried and was heard by the Lord
and was saved from every trouble.
Psalm 34:4
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4 I sought the Lord, and he answered me
and delivered me from all my fears.(A)
2 Timothy 3:11-12
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11 my persecutions, and my sufferings, the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.(A) 12 Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.(B)
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Proverbs 24:16
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16 for though they fall seven times, they will rise again,
but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.(A)
Job 5:19
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19 He will deliver you from six troubles;
in seven no harm shall touch you.(A)
Psalm 71:20
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20 You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.(A)
2 Corinthians 4:7-12
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7 But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.(A) 8 We are afflicted in every way but not crushed, perplexed but not driven to despair, 9 persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed, 10 always carrying around in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies.(B) 11 For we who are living are always being handed over to death for Jesus’s sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal flesh. 12 So death is at work in us but life in you.
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Hebrews 11:33-38
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33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions,(A) 34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.(B) 35 Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, refusing to accept release, in order to obtain a better resurrection.(C) 36 Others suffered mocking and flogging and even chains and imprisonment.(D) 37 They were stoned to death; they were sawn in two;[a] they were killed by the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, persecuted, tormented(E)— 38 of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains and in caves and holes in the ground.(F)
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- 11.37 Other ancient authorities add they were tempted
1 Thessalonians 3:3-4
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3 so that no one would be shaken by these persecutions. Indeed, you yourselves know that this is what we are destined for.(A) 4 In fact, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were to suffer persecution; so it turned out, as you know.
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Acts 14:22
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22 There they strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying, “It is through many persecutions that we must enter the kingdom of God.”(A)
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Job 42:12
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12 The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning, and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.(A)
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Revelation 7:14-17
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14 I said to him, “Sir, you are the one who knows.” Then he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.(A)
15 For this reason they are before the throne of God
and worship him day and night within his temple,
and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them.(B)
16 They will hunger no more and thirst no more;
the sun will not strike them,
nor any scorching heat,(C)
17 for the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd,
and he will guide them to springs of the water of life,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”(D)
James 5:10-11
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10 As an example of suffering and patience, brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. 11 Indeed, we call blessed those who showed endurance. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the outcome that the Lord brought about, for the Lord is compassionate and merciful.(A)
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2 Corinthians 11:23-27
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23 Are they ministers of Christ? I am talking like a madman—I am a better one: with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless floggings, and often near death.(A) 24 Five times I have received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.(B) 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked; for a night and a day I was adrift at sea;(C) 26 on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from bandits, danger from my own people, danger from gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers and sisters;(D) 27 in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, hungry and thirsty, often without food,[a] cold and naked.(E)
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Job 30:9-31
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9 “And now they mock me in song;
I am a byword to them.(A)
10 They abhor me; they keep aloof from me;
they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.(B)
11 Because God has loosed my bowstring and humbled me,
they have cast off restraint in my presence.(C)
12 On my right hand the rabble rise up;
they send me sprawling
and build roads for my ruin.(D)
13 They break up my path;
they promote my calamity;
no one restrains[a] them.
14 As through a wide breach they come;
amid the crash they roll on.
15 Terrors are turned upon me;
my honor is pursued as by the wind,
and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.(E)
16 “And now my soul is poured out within me;
days of affliction have taken hold of me.(F)
17 The night racks my bones,
and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
18 With violence he seizes my garment;[b]
he grasps me by[c] the collar of my tunic.
19 He has cast me into the mire,
and I have become like dust and ashes.(G)
20 I cry to you, and you do not answer me;
I stand, and you merely look at me.(H)
21 You have turned cruel to me;
with the might of your hand you persecute me.(I)
22 You lift me up on the wind, you make me ride on it,
and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.(J)
23 I know that you will bring me to death,
to the house appointed for all living.(K)
24 “Surely one does not turn against the needy,[d]
when in disaster they cry for help.[e](L)
25 Did I not weep for those whose day was hard?
Was not my soul grieved for the poor?(M)
26 But when I looked for good, evil came,
and when I waited for light, darkness came.(N)
27 My inward parts are in turmoil and are never still;
days of affliction come to meet me.
28 I go about in sunless gloom;
I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.(O)
29 I am a brother of jackals
and a companion of ostriches.(P)
30 My skin turns black and falls from me,
and my bones burn with heat.(Q)
31 My lyre is turned to mourning
and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.(R)
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