A. Sufferings & privations while serving God:

ACT 20:19. Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:

1CO 4:11. Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

2CO 1:8. For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

2CO 11:23. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

2CO 11:24. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

2CO 11:25. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

2CO 11:26. In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

2CO 11:27. In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

2CO 11:28. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

2CO 11:29. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

2CO 11:30. If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

PHI 2:27. For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

PHI 2:30. Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

2CO 6:4. But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

2CO 6:5. In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

2CO 6:6. By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

2CO 6:7. By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

2CO 6:8. By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

2CO 6:9. As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

2CO 6:10. As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

B. Suffering caused by persecution:

PHI 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;

2TI 3:12. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

2TI 1:8. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

HEB 11:25. Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

HEB 11:35. Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:

HEB 11:36. And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

HEB 11:37. They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;

HEB 11:38. (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

ROM 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?

ROM 8:36. As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

ROM 8:37. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

1PE 2:19. For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

1PE 2:20. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

1PE 2:21. For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

1PE 3:16. Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

1PE 3:17. For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.