1 Corinthians 13:7

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

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

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

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

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.”

He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

Jacob served seven years for Rachel. They seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was no one to save her.

Now Hannah spoke in her heart. Only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she was drunk.

But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn’t David sent his servants to you to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it?”

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone.

You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.