Song of Solomon 1:6

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

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.

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.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

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.”

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

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

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

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

Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.

I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.

I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper room that was in Samaria, and was sick. So he sent messengers, and said to them, “Go, inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover of this sickness.”

“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

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

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.

The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.

“You shall say this word to them: “ ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

The scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons he casts out the demons.”

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will not be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.

Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s army.” He called the name of that place Mahanaim.

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don’t forget your statutes.

Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.

Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

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.

But the Pharisees said, “By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons.”

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

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

Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.

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

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon, two hundred for those who tend its fruit.

Noah began to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard.

My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?

Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the vineyard to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.

For the hurt of the daughter of my people, I am hurt. I mourn. Dismay has taken hold of me.

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you! Even they have cried aloud after you! Don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.

When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!

When the sun had risen, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.

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 as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now.

They will never be hungry or thirsty any more. The sun won’t beat on them, nor any heat;