1 Corinthians 15:19

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

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

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

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.

One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome: he who opens the book and its seven seals.”

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,

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

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

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

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

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

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.

I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

For Yahweh says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, “Break up your fallow ground, and don’t sow among thorns.

In his name, the nations will hope.”

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

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.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

Then they also who are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

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.

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

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.

That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

Again, Isaiah says, “There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope.”

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.”