• 1 Peter 2:18-25
  Servants, be submissive to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the harsh. For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully. For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is commendable before God. For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:
  "Who committed no sin,
  Nor was deceit found in His mouth"; who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously; who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed. For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
   
• 1 Peter 1:6-11
  In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls. Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
   
• James 1:2-8
  My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
   
• Hebrews 11:35-39
  Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented— of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth. And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise,
   

Related Scriptures

• 1 Corinthians 10:13
  No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
   
• Romans 8:28
  And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
   
• Romans 5:4-5
  and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
   
• Philippians 4:13
  I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
   
• 1 Peter 4:14
  If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.
   
• Psalm 73:2-3
  But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled;
  My steps had nearly slipped.
  For I was envious of the boastful,
  When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
   
• Matthew 24:12-13
  And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.
   
• John 15:13
  Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.
   
• Romans 8:19-23
  For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.
   
• 2 Corinthians 7:9
  Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing.
   
• James 5:11
  Indeed we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord—that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.
   
• Deuteronomy 8:2-3
  And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.
   
• Ecclesiastes 7:2-4
  Better to go to the house of mourning
  Than to go to the house of feasting,
  For that is the end of all men;
  And the living will take it to heart.
  Sorrow is better than laughter,
  For by a sad countenance the heart is made better.
  The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
  But the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
  
   
• Matthew 5:4
  Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.
  
   
• Galatians 6:9
  And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
   
• Colossians 3:1-2
  If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
   
• 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
  Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.
   
• Hebrews 13:5
  Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."
   
• 1 Peter 2:4
  Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious,
   
• 1 Kings 19:14
  And he said, “I have been very zealous for the LORD God of hosts; because the children of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.”
   
• Job 2:6
  And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life.”
   
• Job 10:1
  “My soul loathes my life;
  I will give free course to my complaint,
  I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.