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Romans 8:17-18
and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
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2 Corinthians 1 14
as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
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1 Thessalonians 1 3-1 Thessalonians 1 4
remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,
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2 Thessalonians 1 4-2 Thessalonians 1 7
so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,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,
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2 Corinthians 7 9
I now rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing.
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2 Corinthians 12 20
For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,
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1 Corinthians 10 13
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.
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James 1:2-4
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
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2 Timothy 2 12
If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.
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James 1:12
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.
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Luke 22:28-30
But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
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Philippians 1:6-7
being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
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Matthew 5:11-12
“ Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.