Bible Verses About Persecution: The hope of future blessedness supports under

If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your possessions, knowing that ye have for yourselves a better possession and an abiding one.

Cast not away therefore your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward.