Troubles And Trials

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not. — read the full passage →

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold;

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; — read the full passage →

Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you,

`Be not afraid of the things that thou art about to suffer; lo, the devil is about to cast of you to prison, that ye may be tried, and ye shall have tribulation ten days; become thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of the life.

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God; — read the full passage →

for through faith we walk, not through sight--

And not only <FI>so<Fi> , but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance; — read the full passage →

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle <FI>you<Fi> ;

if we do endure together--we shall also reign together; if we deny <FI>him<Fi> , he also shall deny us;

in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time <FI>are<Fi> not worthy <FI>to be compared<Fi> with the glory about to be revealed in us;

we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;

whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.

lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Beloved, think it not strange at the fiery suffering among you that is coming to try you, as if a strange thing were happening to you, — read the full passage →

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace; — read the full passage →

in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.

for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things concerning me, rather to an advancement of the good news have come, — read the full passage →

`I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;

And in the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, `If any one doth thirst, let him come unto me and drink; — read the full passage →

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort, — read the full passage →

that the proof of your faith--much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved--may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,

not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

always rejoice ye; — read the full passage →

for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us--

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

and have not root in themselves, but are temporary; afterward tribulation or persecution having come because of the word, immediately they are stumbled.

And I saw the heaven having been opened, and lo, a white horse, and he who is sitting upon it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness doth he judge and war, — read the full passage →

And after these things I saw another messenger coming down out of the heaven, having great authority, and the earth was lightened from his glory, — read the full passage →

and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.

on every side being in tribulation, but not straitened; perplexed, but not in despair; — read the full passage →

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, `Simon, <FI>son<Fi> of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, `Feed my lambs.' — read the full passage →

As for you, ye devised against me evil--God devised it for good, in order to do as <FI>at<Fi> this day, to keep alive a numerous people;

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

And not only <FI>so<Fi> , but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting to remain in the faith, and that through many tribulations it behoveth us to enter into the reign of God,

but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

`Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake--because theirs is the reign of the heavens. — read the full passage →

and I have said to him, `Sir, thou hast known;' and he said to me, `These are those who are coming out of the great tribulation, and they did wash their robes, and they made their robes white in the blood of the Lamb;

He who is overcoming--I will give to him to sit with me in my throne, as I also did overcome and did sit down with my Father in His throne.

in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials, — read the full passage →

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for <FI>it is<Fi> good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited; — read the full passage →

reckoning that even out of the dead God is able to raise up, whence also in a figure he did receive <FI>him<Fi> .

Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,

and him who was made some little less than messengers we see--Jesus--because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death. — read the full passage →

And thou--be remaining in the things which thou didst learn and wast entrusted with, having known from whom thou didst learn, — read the full passage →

And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy,

for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

`Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

In transgression of the lips <FI>is<Fi> the snare of the wicked, And the righteous goeth out from distress.

Many <FI>are<Fi> the evils of the righteous, Out of them all doth Jehovah deliver him.

They cried, and Jehovah heard, And from all their distresses delivered them. — read the full passage →

Also--when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou <FI>art<Fi> with me, Thy rod and Thy staff--they comfort me.

And Jehovah is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity. — read the full passage →

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,

therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,

that we may not be over-reached by the Adversary, for of his devices we are not ignorant.

And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood, — read the full passage →

And not only <FI>so<Fi> , but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance; — read the full passage →

`Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake--

Good <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah for a strong place in a day of distress. And He knoweth those trusting in Him.

Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand, — read the full passage →

And I saw one messenger standing in the sun, and he cried, a great voice, saying to all the birds that are flying in mid-heaven, `Come and be gathered together to the supper of the great God, — read the full passage →

And after these things I heard a great voice of a great multitude in the heaven, saying, `Alleluia! the salvation, and the glory, and the honour, and the power, <FI>is<Fi> to the Lord our God; — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

He who is believing in the Son of God, hath the testimony in himself; he who is not believing God, a liar hath made Him, because he hath not believed in the testimony that God hath testified concerning His Son; — read the full passage →

by faith a better sacrifice did Abel offer to God than Cain, through which he was testified to be righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and through it, he being dead, doth yet speak.

And call to your remembrance the former days, in which, having been enlightened, ye did endure much conflict of sufferings,

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: For if we died together--we also shall live together; — read the full passage →

And I give thanks to him who enabled me--Christ Jesus our Lord--that he did reckon me stedfast, having put <FI>me<Fi> to the ministration,

and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch. — read the full passage →

for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things <FI>done<Fi> through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

for of nothing to myself have I been conscious, but not in this have I been declared right--and he who is discerning me is the Lord:

And to him they agreed, and having called near the apostles, having beaten <FI>them<Fi> , they commanded <FI>them<Fi> not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go; — read the full passage →

And there are also many other things--as many as Jesus did--which, if they may be written one by one, not even the world itself I think to have place for the books written. Amen.

For not My thoughts <FI>are<Fi> your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, --an affirmation of Jehovah, — read the full passage →

`Have not I commanded thee? be strong and courageous; be not terrified nor affrighted, for with thee <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah thy God in every <FI>place<Fi> whither thou goest.'