Acts 14:22

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

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 will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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

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.

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,

He who doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, isn’t worthy of me.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

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

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

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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.

He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

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

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.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Jesus answered, “Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can’t enter into God’s Kingdom.

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.

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

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.”

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

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.

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

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

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

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

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

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

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.

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

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

For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

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

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

I indeed baptize you in water for repentance, but he who comes after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

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

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

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

Now when the synagogue broke up, many of the Jews and of the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas; who, speaking to them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

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

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

that being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

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.

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.

But the house of Israel will not listen to you, for they will not listen to me; for all the house of Israel are obstinate and hard-hearted.

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.

{14.24} To Him now being able you to strengthen according to the gospel of mine and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery in times of the ages kept secret,

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

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

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

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

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

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.

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

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

Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

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.

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

“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.

“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into God’s Kingdom.”

If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,

but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

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.

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.