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

if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.

if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die!

for also with my bonds ye sympathised, and the robbery of your goods with joy ye did receive, knowing that ye have in yourselves a better substance in the heavens, and an enduring one.

Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,