Job 2:3

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

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

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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.

though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness,” says the Lord Yahweh.

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

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

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.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “they would deliver neither son nor daughter; they would deliver only their own souls by their righteousness.”

yet I will rejoice in Yahweh. I will be joyful in the God of my salvation!

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

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

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

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.

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.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.

I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn’t fall, for it was founded on the rock.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

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

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

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

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, ‘It is my people;’ and they will say, ‘Yahweh is my God.’ ”

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

But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

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.

but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

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

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

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

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

This is the history of the generations of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.

The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

Joab answered, “Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.

But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked takes his place.

Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

For the Lord Yahweh says: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.

The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him.

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

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.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

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.