Sharing in Christ’s Sufferings: Growing Closer to Him Through Trials

JOHN 15:20

Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep your's also. ...

1 CORINTHIANS 12:12-13

1 Corinthians 12:12: For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is] Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:13: For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
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COLOSSIANS 3:4

When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. ...

ROMANS 12:5

So we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. ...

ROMANS 8:16

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: ...

PHILIPPIANS 1:29

For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake; ...

MATTHEW 10:16

# Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. ...

LUKE 6:22-23

Luke 6:22: Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you [from their company], and shall reproach [you], and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
Luke 6:23: Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward [is] great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
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JOHN 15:12-13

John 15:12: This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
John 15:13: Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
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ROMANS 8:35-39

Romans 8:35: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? [shall] tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans 8:36: As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Romans 8:37: Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Romans 8:38: For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Romans 8:39: Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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