Jeremiah 20:18

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.”

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

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

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.

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

“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.

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,

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.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

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

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;

Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

How then can man be just with God? Or how can he who is born of a woman be clean?

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it 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 whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

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

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.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

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,

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.

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

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.

What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you?

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, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

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.

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

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

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.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

What is man, that he should be clean? What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves.

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.

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

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

Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

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?”

She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

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.

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

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

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

Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

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

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.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

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

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

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

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

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

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

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.

make you complete in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.

He shall offer from it as his offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh; the fat that covers the innards, and all the fat that is on the innards,

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!

From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.

Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.

“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.

Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

“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.

Most certainly I tell you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

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.

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

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.