Acts 27:18

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,

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

They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship, and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry, and are given in marriage.

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

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins,

They took the bull which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, “Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice, and nobody answered. They leaped about the altar which was made.

Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold.

What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.

Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

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

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

However, I consider those things that were gain to me as a loss for Christ.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

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.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

He came to the sheep pens by the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were staying in the innermost parts of the cave.

He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

Will it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,

They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.

What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.

Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.

“Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save.

They bear it on their shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there. It cannot move from its place. Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer. It cannot save him out of his trouble.

“But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble; for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.

They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”

Therefore they cried to Yahweh, and said, “We beg you, Yahweh, we beg you, don’t let us die for this man’s life, and don’t lay on us innocent blood; for you, Yahweh, have done as it pleased you.”

Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh, and made vows.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire.

He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.

Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, “Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

After three months, we set sail in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, whose sign was “The Twin Brothers.”

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,