1 Corinthians 4:9

Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.

For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word.

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

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.

These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.

Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

Elisha prayed, and said, “Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see.” Yahweh opened the young man’s eyes; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

He set the cherubim within the inner house. The wings of the cherubim were stretched out, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the middle of the house.

For the cherubim spread their wings out over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and its poles above.

Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the plans for the chariot, and the cherubim that spread out and cover the ark of Yahweh’s covenant.

I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.

Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and, ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you don’t dash your foot against a stone.’ ”

Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and served him.

An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

Embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, “if he comes to you, receive him”),

as do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers.

partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.

Yahweh, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.

For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many will run back and forth, and knowledge will be increased.”

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

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.

The angel answered the women, “Don’t be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.

Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army praising God, and saying,

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.

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.

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

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.”

But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out and said,

For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?

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.

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

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

The elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth.

Again, on the day when the God’s sons came to present themselves before Yahweh, Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.

Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

Praise Yahweh, all you armies of his, you servants of his, who do his pleasure.

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.

The man who stood among the myrtle trees answered, “They are the ones Yahweh has sent to go back and forth through the earth.”

He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.

But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

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

Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.

But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

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, and in deaths often.

For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail.

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

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

The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.

Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

“Those who are wise among the people will instruct many; yet they will fall by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, many days.

He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.

But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.

The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.

Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

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

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.