Bible Verses about “sacrifices and hardship”

“¶ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.”

“Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”

“¶ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;”

“But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”

“Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”

“I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‹It is more blessed to give than to receive.›”

“And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;”

“And patience, experience; and experience, hope:”

“Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”

“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.”

“Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.”

“But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.”

“¶ Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:”

“By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of [our] lips giving thanks to his name.”

“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.”

“Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.”

“The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.”

“That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:”

“And Samuel said, Hath the LORD [as great] delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey [is] better than sacrifice, [and] to hearken than the fat of rams.”

“¶ Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:”

“And when he had called the people [unto him] with his disciples also, he said unto them, ‹Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.›”

“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,”

“Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.”

“For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give [it]: thou delightest not in burnt offering.”

“But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.”

“But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things [which were sent] from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.”

“‹For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.›”