1 Peter 3:17

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.

But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

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

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

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

then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

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

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

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

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

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

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

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

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.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it will happen that when you go, you shall not go empty-handed.

Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

Now God made Daniel find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of the eunuchs.

In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

For I do not wish to see you now in passing, but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

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.

When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.

But the men were very good to us, and we were not harmed, and we didn’t miss anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”

saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”

But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord is willing. And I will know, not the word of those who are puffed up, but the power.

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,

God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, became an archer.

Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.

Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Don’t be afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes;

Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

This will we do, if God permits.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

Take heed, don’t regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

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

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.

But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

David answered the priest, and said to him, “Truly, women have been kept from us as usual these three days. When I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was only a common journey. How much more then today shall their vessels be holy?”

Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”

but taking his leave of them, he said, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The Lord’s will be done.”

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.