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

If it is only for this life that we have put our hope in the Messiah, we are more pitiable than anyone.

If my fighting with “wild beasts” in Ephesus was done merely on a human basis, what do I gain by it? If dead people are not raised, we might as well live by the saying, “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

For you shared the sufferings of those who had been put in prison. Also when your possessions were seized, you accepted it gladly; since you knew that what you possessed was better and would last forever.

So don’t throw away that courage of yours, which carries with it such a great reward.