Acts 5:41

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.

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.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

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

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

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.

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

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

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

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,

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

“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

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.

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

For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

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

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

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

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

Lift up your eyes all around, and see: all these gather themselves together, and come to you. As I live,” says Yahweh, “you shall surely clothe yourself with them all as with an ornament, and dress yourself with them, like a bride.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

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

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

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

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

Let your priests be clothed with righteousness. Let your saints shout for joy!”

I will also clothe her priests with salvation. Her saints will shout aloud for joy.

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

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

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.

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

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

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.

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

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

Always rejoice.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

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

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.

It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

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

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

If it happens, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

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.

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

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

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

But those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage.

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

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

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

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

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

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.”

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.

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

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

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,

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,

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

With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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.”

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.

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

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

You became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit,

but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.

because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.