Matthew 5:12

"Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you."

Rejoice and be glad
Psalm 9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
Acts 5:41 The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.
2 Corinthians 6:10 ... sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing and yet possessing everything.
2 Corinthians 12:10 That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Colossians 1:24 Now I rejoice in what was suffered for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.
James 1:2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, ...
1 Peter 1:6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.
1 Peter 4:13 But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed.
1 Peter 4:16 However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name.

for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you
2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked God's messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the LORD was aroused against his people and there was no remedy.
Matthew 23:31 "So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets."
Matthew 23:37 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing."
Acts 7:52 Was there ever a prophet your fathers did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him-- ...
1 Thessalonians 2:15 ... who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to all men ...

NOTES:
Hebrews 11:32-38

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