Passage cross-references.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? …

For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; …

Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.

If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; …

And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.

Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: …

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: …

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? …

But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. …

And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.

But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.

And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.