2 Timothy 2:3

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

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

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

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

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

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.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

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.

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,

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.

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.

Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

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,

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

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

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

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

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

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.

that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

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

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

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

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.

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

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

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

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.

Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

Moses said, “You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more.”

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

Yahweh examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

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

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

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

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.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

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

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Moses did so. According to all that Yahweh commanded him, so he did.

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

On the next day, we who were Paul’s companions departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

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

Tell Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.”

Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.

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

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

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.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

Joshua therefore came to them suddenly. He marched from Gilgal all night.

only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:

Sons were also born to Shemaiah his son, who ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.

Those who built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands did the work, and with the other held his weapon.

So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me.

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

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