I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.
Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door. As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy;
But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.
so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.
Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.
For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.
As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!
I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.
and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,
remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one—I am talking like a madman—with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.
So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.
Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.
Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.
nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you.
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
We do not boast beyond limit in the labors of others. But our hope is that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you may be greatly enlarged,
beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;
Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Greet the beloved Persis, who has worked hard in the Lord.
By your endurance you will gain your lives.
And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.
I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication.
For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that dishonor has covered my face.
We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,
be subject to such as these, and to every fellow worker and laborer.
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