Revelation 1:9

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.”

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

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,

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

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.

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.

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.

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,

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

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.”

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

John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

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.

Yahweh’s Spirit will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh.

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

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.

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

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

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

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

“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

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 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.

Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.

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

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

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

Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”

He said to them, “You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

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.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

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

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

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.

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.

It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

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

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

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

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

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.

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

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

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

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,

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 testified to God’s word and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, about everything that he saw.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

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.

If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify these things to you for the assemblies. I am the root and the offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”

They said to him, “We are able.” Jesus said to them, “You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;

He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.

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

However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

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

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

Another angel came out from the altar, he who has power over fire, and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, “Send your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for the earth’s grapes are fully ripe!”

Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

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

Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;

Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.

But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love, and into the perseverance of Christ.

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”