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* The biblical verses in this article are in general according to the New Revised Standard Version.

1.  1 PETER 5:10 And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, support, strengthen, and establish you.

2.  ROMANS 5:3 And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance.

3.  ROMANS 8:18 I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.

4.  2 CORINTHIANS 4:17 For this slight momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure.

5.  ROMANS 8:35, 39 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? … Anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

6.  1 PETER 4:1 Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same intention, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin.

7.  PHILIPPIANS 1:29 For he has graciously granted you the privilege not only of believing in Christ, but of suffering for him as well.

8.  ISAIAH 53:4 Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.

9.  MATTHEW 10:38 And whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

10. MATTHEW 10:39 Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.