TSK · Romans 5:3

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

"By your endurance you will win your lives.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you are blessed. "Don't fear what they fear, neither be troubled."