2 Corinthians 1:6

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.

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.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

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.”

Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

and said, “I beg you, Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments:

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.’ ”

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We love him, because he first loved us.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

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

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?

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.

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

and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

For we know that if the earthly house of our tent is dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.

I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,

you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

who also sealed us, and gave us the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts.

Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

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,

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

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

Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.

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

For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News,

I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

“So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had rest forty years.

Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them. There were with him about four hundred men.

It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”

“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.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.

They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

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

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

Why? Because I don’t love you? God knows.

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

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

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

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

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

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

For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

When those days were over, we departed and went on our journey. They all, with wives and children, brought us on our way until we were out of the city. Kneeling down on the beach, we prayed.