Hebrews 10:33

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.”

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”

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.”

Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.

“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.

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

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,

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

“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.

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

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

He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

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

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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,

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,

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.

Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.

They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.

“Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

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

Yahweh said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia,

You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is your name:

Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then set your face toward it. It will be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

and speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build Yahweh’s temple;

Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

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

For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

I was still unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea which were in Christ,

For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

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.

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.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

“ ‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.

yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.

In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

He said to me, “You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”

For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

“Say, ‘I am your sign. As I have done, so will it be done to them. They will go into exile, into captivity.

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

because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

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.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

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

For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

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

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.

Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

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

Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

“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 throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.

Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.

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.

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.

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,

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

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

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.

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