2 Corinthians 10:15

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.

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

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

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

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

They will call the peoples to the mountain. There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they will draw out the abundance of the seas, the hidden treasures of the sand.”

But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

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

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

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.

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

Her merchandise and her wages will be holiness to Yahweh. It will not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.

This city will be to me for a name of joy, for praise, and for glory, before all the nations of the earth, which will hear all the good that I do to them, and will fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I provide to it.’ ”

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.

Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”

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

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

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

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

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”

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.

Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

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

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

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

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

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

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

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

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

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

Let all that you do be done in love.

But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

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

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

Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.

For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news”, which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.

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

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

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.

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,

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

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

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.

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.”

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

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,

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

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

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.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

Who wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”

The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them.

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

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

Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you.