2 Timothy 4:17

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.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

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

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

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

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.

Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

and don’t give place to the devil.

The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

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

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat,

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.

Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”

saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

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

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

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,

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;

Now after these things had ended, Paul determined in the Spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, “After I have been there, I must also see Rome.”

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

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.

of the gold, the silver, the bronze, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and may Yahweh be with you.”

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

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

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

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

The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

David said, “Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go! Yahweh will be with you.”

An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

preaching God’s Kingdom, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance.

You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

Don’t be afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom you are afraid. Don’t be afraid of him,’ says Yahweh: ‘for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.

He delivers and rescues. He works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.”

But when they deliver you up, don’t be anxious how or what you will say, for it will be given you in that hour what you will say.

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

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”

For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

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.

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.

who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked out righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

The name of the other was Eliezer, for he said, “My father’s God was my help and delivered me from Pharaoh’s sword.”

So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.

The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

“I have struck your children in vain. They received no correction. Your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

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.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

The beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like those of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.