2 Thessalonians 1:4

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.

Pray without ceasing.

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

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

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

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

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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.

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

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.

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

Always rejoice.

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.

The disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

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.

I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

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.

To this end we also pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire of goodness and work of faith with power,

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

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

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

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

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God’s assemblies.

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.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews

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 let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

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

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

If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

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.”

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

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

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

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

For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

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 has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

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 God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.

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 in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

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.

I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

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.

I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,

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.

For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,

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

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

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

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;

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

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

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.

lest by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) would be disappointed in this confident boasting.

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.

You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

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.

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

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

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

Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.