2 Timothy 3:12

New Century Version

Everyone who wants to live as God desires, in Christ Jesus, will be persecuted.

Cross References

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to his followers, “If people want to follow me, they must give up the things they want. They must be willing even to give up their lives to follow me.

Matthew 23:34

So I tell you this: I am sending to you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify. Some of them you will beat in your synagogues and chase from town to town.

Mark 10:30

will get more than they left. Here in this world they will have a hundred times more homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and fields. And with those things, they will also suffer for their belief. But in this age they will have life forever.

John 16:2

People will put you out of their synagogues. Yes, the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are offering service to God.

John 16:33

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

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.

Acts 14:22

making the followers of Jesus stronger and helping them stay in the faith. They said, “We must suffer many things to enter God’s kingdom.”

1 Corinthians 15:19

If our hope in Christ is for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone else in the world.

2 Corinthians 1:12

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

2 Corinthians 4:9

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

1 Timothy 2:2

Pray for rulers and for all who have authority so that we can have quiet and peaceful lives full of worship and respect for God.

1 Timothy 3:16

Without doubt, the secret of our life of worship is great: He was shown to us in a human body, proved right in spirit, and seen by angels. He was proclaimed to the nations, believed in by the world, and taken up in glory.

1 Timothy 6:3

Anyone who has a different teaching does not agree with the true teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that shows the true way to serve God.

Titus 1:1

From Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ. I was sent to help the faith of God’s chosen people and to help them know the truth that shows people how to serve God.

Titus 2:12

It teaches us not to live against God nor to do the evil things the world wants to do. Instead, that grace teaches us to live in the present age in a wise and right way and in a way that shows we serve God.

Joshua 17:14

The people from the tribes of Joseph said to Joshua, “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 the Lord gave his people?”

1 Peter 3:14

But even if you suffer for doing right, you are blessed. “Don’t be afraid of what they fear; do not dread those things.”

2 Peter 3:11

In that way everything will be destroyed. So what kind of people should you be? You should live holy lives and serve God,

Revelation 12:4

His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and threw them down to the earth. He stood in front of the woman who was ready to give birth so he could eat her baby as soon as it was born.

Revelation 7:14

I answered, “You know, sir.” And the elder said to me, “These are the people who have come out of the great distress. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.