2 Corinthians 4:10

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

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

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

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.

Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

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

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.”

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

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

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

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

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,

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

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

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

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.

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

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

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.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let’s exalt his name together.

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

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

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.

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

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

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?

Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

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.

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

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

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

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.

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

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.

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

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

who was declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.

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

Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.

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

For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

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,

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,