2 Corinthians 7:4

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

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.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

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

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

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

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

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.

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

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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.”

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

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

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh‘s hand, and a royal diadem in your God’s hand.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

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

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,

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

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.”

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

Now thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift!

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.

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

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

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,

For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.

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

“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?

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

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.

The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods.

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.

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, “I believed, and therefore I spoke.” We also believe, and therefore we also speak;

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”

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.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

I thank my God whenever I remember you,

having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.

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

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

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.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

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

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

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.

Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

Brothers, pray for us.

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

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

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.”

For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

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

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,

For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

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

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

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

I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

Therefore show the proof of your love to them before the assemblies, and of our boasting on your behalf.

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

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.

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

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.

but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

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

for I know your readiness, of which I boast on your behalf to those of Macedonia, that Achaia has been prepared for the past year. Your zeal has stirred up very many of them.