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

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

If (according to man) I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me, if the dead rise not again? Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall die.

For you both had compassion on them that were in bands and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance.

Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward.