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Romans 5:3
And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;
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2 Timothy 1 8
Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel 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 glorying 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 unto his death;
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2 Corinthians 1 5-2 Corinthians 1 8
For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
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Colossians 1:18
And he is the head of the body, the church: 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
Wherefore I ask that ye may not faint at my tribulations for you, which are your glory.
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2 Timothy 2 9-2 Timothy 2 10
wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s 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 brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations;
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Matthew 5:11-12
Blessed are ye when men shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that 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 the Name.
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Philippians 2:17-18
Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:and in the same manner do ye also joy, and rejoice with me.
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Ephesians 3:1
For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,—
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2 Corinthians 11 23-2 Corinthians 11 27
Are they ministers of Christ?( I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep;in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
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2 Corinthians 4 8-2 Corinthians 4 12
we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;always bearing about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body.For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
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Ephesians 1:23
which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.