Psalms 119:71

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

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

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

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

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.

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

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.

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

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.

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

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

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?

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

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

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

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.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

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.

Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

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.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

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.

In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

“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.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

Yahweh, I know that your judgments are righteous, that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.

for whom Yahweh loves, he corrects, even as a father reproves the son in whom he delights.

When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.

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

However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

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.

This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.”

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

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”

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

I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job didn’t sin with his lips.

Yahweh examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.

Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.

Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.

Come, my people, enter into your rooms, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

Hear therefore Yahweh’s word, all you captives, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

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

Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

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.”

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

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—

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

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.

You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his correction;

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherah poles, or the incense altars.

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

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,

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.

Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.

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.

The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones,

then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

“Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

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

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.