Luke 16:21

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

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

Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon. He is likely to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.”

The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”

He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.

To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also.

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—

He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.

He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak. He said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” He said, “I am.”

So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks. He called to her, and said, “Please get me a little water in a jar, that I may drink.”

When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.” He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” Then the oil stopped flowing.

But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

They took fortified cities and a rich land, and possessed houses full of all good things, cisterns dug out, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate, were filled, became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.

So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.

For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

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

For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.

My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.

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

You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

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.

I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

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

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

But what did you go out to see? A man in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.

saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

They all ate, and were filled.

But she answered him, “Yes, Lord. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”

They ate and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.

Not many days after, the younger son gathered all of this together and traveled into a far country. There he wasted his property with riotous living.

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was taken to his gate, full of sores,

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

When they were filled, he said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost.”

Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.

But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth.

The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.

Have we no right to eat and to drink?

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

Bring the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when you come, and the books, especially the parchments.

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

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?

For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if, when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.