2 Timothy 1:16

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.

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!

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

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

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

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

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

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

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

oppression, and anguish on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

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,

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.

“Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on Yahweh our God’s altar, as it is written in the law;

The priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

There are those who covet greedily all day long; but the righteous give and don’t withhold.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Jesus said to him, “You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”

He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

but now, no longer having any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come to you,

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,

Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

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.

Greet Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.

but taking his leave of them, he said, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills.” Then he set sail from Ephesus.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”

For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

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

Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.

Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.

Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

Remember me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don’t wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its observances.

I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.

and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful. With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.

Then the commanding officer came near, arrested him, commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.

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.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

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

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,

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,

(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

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.

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.