“We ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

“Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God” (II Thes. 1:4,5).

"And if we are [His] children, then we are [His] heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His inheritance with Him]; only we must share His suffering if we are to share His glory (likeness and expression). (Romans 8:17 (AMP)