Genesis 32:7

“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.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for 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.

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

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.

Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

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

He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.

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

I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

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

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

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

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

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

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

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

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

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

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

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.

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.

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.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

Yahweh said to Jacob, “Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you.”

Then he cried to Yahweh. Yahweh showed him a tree, and he threw it into the waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there he tested them.

Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness many days.

“You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red Sea,

My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.

He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress. I will never be greatly shaken.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.

He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

Then I called on Yahweh’s name: “Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.”

Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we will prevail against him, and we will take our revenge on him.”

“At that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there will be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. At that time your people will be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.

Yahweh thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith?

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.

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

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.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

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

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

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,

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.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

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

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and strike me and the mothers with the children.

When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

Out of my distress, I called on Yah. Yah answered me with freedom.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

For his God instructs him in right judgment and teaches him.

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it. It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he will be saved out of it.

He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

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.”

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.

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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

I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.