Acts 16:25

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

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.

“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.

Pray without ceasing.

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

Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.

You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

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

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

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.

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

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

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.

Always rejoice.

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.”

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”

Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

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.’ ”

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.

“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly;

You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

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

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.”

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

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.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

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

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

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

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.

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

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

You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you. You will pay your vows.

But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you, because of your righteous ordinances.

like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion; for there Yahweh gives the blessing, even life forever more.

Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

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.

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

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

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

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

I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.

You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.

Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.

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

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, “O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

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

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers.

He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.

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

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

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,

to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,

All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the islands of the sea!

He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

So he took him, and brought him to the commanding officer, and said, “Paul, the prisoner, summoned me and asked me to bring this young man to you. He has something to tell you.”

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

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

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

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.