Colossians 2:1

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

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

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

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.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

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.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

For however many are the promises of God, in him is the “Yes.” Therefore also through him is the “Amen”, to the glory of God through us.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he might have the preeminence.

But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

For I most certainly, as being absent in body but present in spirit, have already, as though I were present, judged him who has done this thing.

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

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

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,

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

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

I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

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

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

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?”

Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is, being interpreted, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”

The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

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

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

Let all things be done decently and in order.

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.

you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift given to us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on your behalf.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

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.

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

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

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.

Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

Yahweh answered me, “Write the vision, and make it plain on tablets, that he who runs may read it.

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

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

For I testify about him that he has great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.

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.

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

By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:

“To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: “He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:

“To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: “The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.

saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The set feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.

I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

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

But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”

“Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching God’s Kingdom, will see my face no more.

sorrowing most of all because of the word which he had spoken, that they should see his face no more. Then they accompanied him to the ship.

Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

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,

For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

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.

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,

But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

“To the angel of the assembly in Laodicea write: “The Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of God’s creation, says these things:

Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.