2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
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2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
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Deuteronomy 8:16
who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;
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2 Samuel 16:12
It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”
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Psalms 16:11
You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.
Psalms 17:15
As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.
Psalms 21:5
His glory is great in your salvation. You lay honor and majesty on him.
Psalms 21:6
For you make him most blessed forever. You make him glad with joy in your presence.
Psalms 73:26
My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
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Ecclesiastes 7:3
Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.
Mark 10:30
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.
Luke 6:22
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.
Acts 16:25
But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
2 Corinthians 6:10
as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
2 Corinthians 7:4
Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
Philippians 2:17
Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
1 Thessalonians 3:3
that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
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Isaiah 40:1
“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
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Isaiah 40:2
“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”
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Jeremiah 24:5
“Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, as good.
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Jeremiah 24:6
For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land. I will build them, and not pull them down. I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
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Lamentations 3:26
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
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Lamentations 3:27
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
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Malachi 2:2
If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.
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Job 5:19
He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.
Psalms 66:11
You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.
Proverbs 18:10
Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.
Matthew 6:33
But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
John 16:33
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.”
Romans 8:31
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:35
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans 8:36
Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
1 Corinthians 10:13
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.
2 Corinthians 4:12
So then death works in us, but life in you.
2 Corinthians 12:7
By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Hebrews 10:34
For you both had compassion on me in my chains and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.
Hebrews 11:35
Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.
James 5:11
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
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Acts 15:28
For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:
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2 Corinthians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
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2 Corinthians 1:5
For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
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2 Corinthians 1:17
When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”
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Galatians 4:6
And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”
Ephesians 1:19
and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
Philippians 1:6
being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 1:19
For I know that this will turn out to my salvation through your prayers and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
Philippians 1:27
Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
Philippians 1:29
Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,
1 Thessalonians 2:12
to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
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Luke 16:25
“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.
Acts 20:24
But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
2 Corinthians 5:2
For most certainly in this we groan, longing to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
Colossians 3:10
and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
2 Thessalonians 1:6
For it is a righteous thing with God to repay affliction to those who afflict you,
Hebrews 2:9
But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
Hebrews 4:9
There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
1 Peter 1:4
to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,
1 Peter 1:5
who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1 Peter 4:1
Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
1 Peter 5:4
When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.
2 Peter 1:11
For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Revelation 2:7
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.
Revelation 3:21
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.
Revelation 14:13
I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Write, ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their works follow with them.”
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Job 33:19
“He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones,
1 Corinthians 11:32
But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?
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Psalms 31:19
Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!
Psalms 103:17
But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children,
Isaiah 51:11
Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion. Everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Daniel 12:3
Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.
Matthew 13:43
Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
Matthew 25:34
Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
Luke 12:32
“Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
John 5:24
“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
John 5:44
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Romans 8:10
If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
Ephesians 3:19
and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Philippians 1:23
But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:8
From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.
James 1:12
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.
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