Jeremiah 29:26

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

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.

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’

He went away, and talked with the chief priests and captains about how he might deliver him to them.

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

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

I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”

You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.

Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”

The multitude answered, “You have a demon! Who seeks to kill 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.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

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

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

He who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born shall be put to death when he blasphemes the Name.

When you come there, find Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi, and go in, and make him rise up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room.

My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

What will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.

Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem. Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

Moreover Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still locked up in the court of the guard, saying,

When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home. So he lived among the people.

Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to reverse your captivity, but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.

The Lord Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

“Test your servants, I beg you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat, and water to drink.

So he listened to them in this matter, and tested them for ten days.

The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

His mother and his brothers came, and standing outside, they sent to him, calling him.

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

Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane! Why do you listen to him?”

They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.

When they had stood Peter and John in the middle of them, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”

Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, then brought him in to the council,

but his disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall, lowering him in a basket.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

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.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all well?”

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.

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.”

who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”

Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, “Bring her out between the ranks. Kill anyone who follows her with the sword.” For the priest said, “Don’t let her be slain in Yahweh’s house.”

All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down. They broke his altars and his images in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over Yahweh’s house.

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

and say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.” ’ ”

As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.”

Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.

Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,

Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

So Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?”

They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?”

The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in public custody.

Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

I was let down in a basket through a window by the wall, and escaped his hands.

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

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.