Acts 20:23

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

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.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

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.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

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.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

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

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

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven.

I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

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.

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

Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

Behold, I put ropes on you, and you shall not turn yourself from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

For I spoke not from myself, but the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

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

While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men seek you.

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.

After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”

Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

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.”

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

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.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

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

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

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.

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.

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

Joses, who by the apostles was also called Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of Encouragement), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

The Spirit told me to go with them, without discriminating. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house.

Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.

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.”

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

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

and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

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.

Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’ ”

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

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

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

But you, son of man, behold, they will put ropes on you, and will bind you with them, and you will not go out among them.

for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

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.”

The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”

So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia. From there they sailed to Cyprus.

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.

I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

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

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.

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.