Luke 21:36

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

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

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.

Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”

We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.

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

Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Be strong and behave like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you. Strengthen yourselves like men, and fight!”

He said, “Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong.” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, “Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.”

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.

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.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

and don’t give place to the devil.

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

“I am going the way of all the earth. You be strong therefore, and show yourself a man;

Yahweh of Armies says: “Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.

It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don’t be afraid. Let your hands be strong.”

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

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,

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

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

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.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice.

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

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

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

What I tell you, I tell all: Watch.”

Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, who gave gifts for the needy generously to the people, and always prayed to God.

Pray without ceasing.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

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,

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Jonadab the son of Rechab will not lack a man to stand before me forever.’ ”

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them.

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.

Therefore Yahweh says, “If you return, then I will bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take out the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth. They will return to you, but you will not return to them.

As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans who will come to us; but you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.”

The king appointed for them a daily portion of the king’s dainties, and of the wine which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at its end they should stand before the king.

“I saw in the night visions, and behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

“But go your way until the end; for you will rest, and will stand in your inheritance at the end of the days.”

He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.

“Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

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

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

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

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

This is an obvious sign of the righteous judgment of God, to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer.

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”