Taking Up Your Cross Bible Verses

MATTHEW 5:11-12

Matthew 5:11: Blessed are ye, when [men] shall revile you, and persecute [you], and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Matthew 5:12: Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great [is] your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
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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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MATTHEW 5:3-10

Matthew 5:3: Blessed [are] the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:4: Blessed [are] they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Matthew 5:5: Blessed [are] the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Matthew 5:6: Blessed [are] they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Matthew 5:7: Blessed [are] the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Matthew 5:8: Blessed [are] the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Matthew 5:9: Blessed [are] the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Matthew 5:10: Blessed [are] they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for their's is the kingdom of heaven.
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1 PETER 4:13

But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. ...

2 CORINTHIANS 4:16-18

2 Corinthians 4:16: For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward [man] is renewed day by day.
2 Corinthians 4:17: For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding [and] eternal weight of glory;
2 Corinthians 4:18: While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.
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HEBREWS 10:34-36

Hebrews 10:34: For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
Hebrews 10:35: Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
Hebrews 10:36: For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
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ROMANS 8:28

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [his] purpose. ...

PHILIPPIANS 3:8-10

Philippians 3:8: Yea doubtless, and I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Christ,
Philippians 3:9: And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
Philippians 3:10: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
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ROMANS 12:12

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; ...

JAMES 1:2-4

James 1:2: My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
James 1:3: Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
James 1:4: But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
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2 TIMOTHY 3:12

Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. ...

1 PETER 5:10

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you]. ...