Philippians 1:30

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,

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.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

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

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

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.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

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

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

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,

I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with 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.

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,

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.

The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

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 these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

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.

and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

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.

For I testify about him that he has great zeal for you, and for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

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.

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

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

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

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, “king of righteousness”, and then also “king of Salem”, which means “king of peace”,

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

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.

Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

saying, “What you see, write in a book and send to the seven assemblies: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the Word of God, and for the testimony of the Lamb which they had.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

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.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.