Passage cross-references.

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. …

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

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

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: …

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. …

Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth; …

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. …

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. …

The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.

My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: …

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. …

Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.

But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian: …

Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. …

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

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

Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:

Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. …

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. …