Bible verses about "hardship" | Moffatt

⁴ All such words were written of old for our instruction, that by remaining stedfast and drawing encouragement from the scriptures we may cherish hope.

²⁸ We know also that those who love God, those who have been called in terms of his purpose, have his aid and interest in everything.

³ Join the ranks of those who bear suffering, like a loyal soldier of Christ Jesus.

¹² Yes, and all who want to live the religious life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

¹⁰ Now you have followed my teaching, my practice, my aims, my faith, my patience, my love, my stedfastness, ¹¹ my persecutions, my sufferings — all that befell me at Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, all the persecutions I had to undergo, from which the Lord rescued me. ¹² Yes, and all who want to live the religious life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

⁸ Whoever does not provide for his own relatives and particularly for his own family, has repudiated the faith: he is worse than an infidel.

¹³ You are sharing what Christ suffered; so rejoice in it, that you may also rejoice and exult when his glory is revealed.

³⁵ What can ever part us from Christ's love? Can anguish or calamity or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword? ³⁶ (Because, as it is written, For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.) ³⁷ No, in all this we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am certain neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, ³⁹ no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁸ If the world hates you, remember it hated me first. ¹⁹ If you belonged to the world, the world would love what it owned; it is because you do not belong to the world, because I have chosen you from the world, that the world hates you. ²⁰ Remember what I told you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they hold to my word, they will hold to yours.

² Greet it as pure joy, my brothers, when you come across any sort of trial, ³ sure that the sterling temper of your faith produces endurance; ⁴ only, let your endurance be a finished product, so that you may be finished and complete, with never a defect.