Proverbs 27:17

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

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.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

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.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”

Let brotherly love continue.

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

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

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

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

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

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

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.

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

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

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.

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

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

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Then he opened their minds, that they might understand the Scriptures.

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

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,

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

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 if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

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.

But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.”

For he performs that which is appointed for me. Many such things are with him.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue:

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.

Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

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.”

and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was also able to perform.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

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

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,

who will change the body of our humiliation to be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working by which he is able even to subject all things to himself.

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.

(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

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,

I therefore run like that, not aimlessly. I fight like that, not beating the air,

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

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,

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

but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

They said to one another, “Weren’t our hearts burning within us, while he spoke to us along the way, and while he opened the Scriptures to us?”

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.

When she heard this, she arose quickly and went to him.