2 Timothy 3:12

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Everyone who wants to live showing true devotion to God in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

Cross References

1 Peter 3:14

But you may suffer for doing right. If that happens, you have God’s blessing. “Don’t be afraid of the people who make you suffer; don’t be worried.”

Acts 14:22

In those cities they helped the followers grow stronger in their faith and encouraged them to continue trusting God. They told them, “We must suffer many things on our way into God’s kingdom.”

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to his followers, “If any of you want to be my follower, you must stop thinking about yourself and what you want. You must be willing to carry the cross that is given to you for following me.

John 16:2

People will tell you to leave their synagogues and never come back. In fact, the time will come when they will think that killing you would be doing service for God.

John 16:33

“I have told you these things so that you can have peace in me. In this world you will have troubles. But be brave! I have defeated the world!”

Mark 10:30

will get a hundred times more than they left. Here in this world they will get more homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and farms. And with these things they will have persecutions. But in the world that is coming they will also get the reward of eternal life.

Titus 2:12

It teaches us not to live against God and not to do the bad things the world wants to do. It teaches us to live on earth now in a wise and right way—a way that shows true devotion to God.

2 Peter 3:11

Everything will be destroyed in this way. So what kind of people should you be? Your lives should be holy and devoted to God.

1 Corinthians 15:19

If our hope in Christ is only for this life here on earth, then people should feel more sorry for us than for anyone else.

Revelation 12:4

Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and threw them down to the earth. It stood in front of the woman who was ready to give birth to the baby. It wanted to eat the woman’s baby as soon as it was born.

Revelation 7:14

I answered, “You know who they are, sir.” And the elder said, “These are the ones who have come out of the great suffering. They have washed their robes with the blood of the Lamb, and they are clean and white.

Titus 1:1

Greetings from Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ. I was sent to help God’s chosen people have faith and understand the truth that produces a life of devotion to God.

1 Timothy 6:3

Some people will teach what is false and will not agree with the true teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ. They will not accept the teaching that produces a life of devotion to God.

1 Timothy 3:16

Without a doubt, the secret of our life of worship is great: Christ was shown to us in human form; the Spirit proved that he was right; he was seen by angels. The message about him was told to the nations; people in the world believed in him; he was taken up to heaven in glory.

1 Timothy 2:2

You should pray for rulers and for all who have authority. Pray for these leaders so that we can live quiet and peaceful lives—lives full of devotion to God and respect for him.

2 Corinthians 1:12

This is what we are proud of, and I can say with a clear conscience that it is true: In everything we have done in the world, we have done it with an honest and pure heart from God. And this is even truer in what we have done with you. We did this by God’s grace, not by the kind of wisdom the world has.

John 17:14

I have given them your teaching. And the world has hated them, because they don’t belong to the world, just as I don’t belong to the world.

Matthew 23:34

So I tell you this: I send to you prophets and teachers who are wise and know the Scriptures. You will kill some of them. You will hang some of them on crosses. You will beat some of them in your synagogues. You will chase them from town to town.

Joshua 17:14

The tribe of Joseph spoke to Joshua and said, “You gave us only one area of land, but we are many people. Why did you give us only one part of all the land that the Lord gave his people?”

2 Corinthians 4:9

We are persecuted, but God does not leave us. We are hurt sometimes, but we are not destroyed.