2 Corinthians 4:9
pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
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2 Corinthians 4:9
pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
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Genesis 8:9
but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.
Isaiah 33:12
The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
Jeremiah 8:18
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
Jeremiah 45:3
‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.” ’
Matthew 11:28
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
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Joshua 1:5
No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.
1 Samuel 12:22
For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.
Psalms 9:10
Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
Psalms 42:4
These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
Psalms 44:5
Through you, we will push down our adversaries. Through your name, we will tread down those who rise up against us.
Psalms 138:3
In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
Micah 7:10
Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, “Where is Yahweh your God?” My eyes will see her. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
John 14:19
Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
2 Timothy 4:18
And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me for his heavenly Kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 11:34
quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, grew mighty in war, and caused foreign armies to flee.
Hebrews 12:6
for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
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Joshua 7:7
Joshua said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!
Joshua 7:8
Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies?
Joshua 7:9
For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”
Joshua 7:10
Yahweh said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face like that?
Joshua 7:11
Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.
2 Samuel 6:7
Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by God’s ark.
2 Samuel 6:8
David was displeased because Yahweh had broken out against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah to this day.
2 Samuel 6:9
David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, “How could Yahweh’s ark come to me?”
2 Samuel 6:10
So David would not move Yahweh’s ark to be with him in David’s city; but David carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.
1 Chronicles 13:9
When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled.
1 Chronicles 13:10
Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzza, and he struck him because he put his hand on the ark; and he died there before God.
1 Chronicles 13:11
David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.
1 Chronicles 13:12
David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring God’s ark home to me?”
1 Chronicles 13:13
So David didn’t move the ark with him into David’s city, but carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.
1 Chronicles 15:12
and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, up to the place that I have prepared for it.
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Judges 15:18
He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
1 Samuel 30:6
David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
Job 5:17
“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
Psalms 22:1
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
Psalms 22:14
I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.
Psalms 22:15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.
Psalms 63:1
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
Psalms 84:2
My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Isaiah 43:20
The animals of the field, the jackals and the ostriches, shall honor me, because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
Lamentations 3:32
For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
John 19:28
After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty!”
Hebrews 12:26
whose voice shook the earth then, but now he has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heavens.”
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Judges 16:28
Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”
Job 33:24
then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’
Job 33:25
His flesh will be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.
Job 33:26
He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.
Psalms 103:5
who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
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Ruth 1:1
In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons.
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1 Samuel 2:4
“The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.
1 Samuel 2:7
Yahweh makes poor and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.
1 Samuel 2:8
He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
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1 Samuel 14:28
Then one of the people answered, and said, “Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’ ” So the people were faint.
1 Samuel 14:29
Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened because I tasted a little of this honey.
1 Samuel 14:31
They struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;
1 Samuel 14:32
and the people pounced on the plunder, and took sheep, cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.
1 Samuel 30:10
But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn’t go over the brook Besor.
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Joshua 10:24
When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, “Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings.” They came near, and put their feet on their necks.
Joshua 10:25
Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight.”
1 Samuel 17:34
David said to Saul, “Your servant was keeping his father’s sheep; and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock,
1 Samuel 17:35
I went out after him, struck him, and rescued it out of his mouth. When he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, struck him, and killed him.
1 Samuel 17:36
Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.”
1 Samuel 17:37
David said, “Yahweh, who delivered me out of the paw of the lion and out of the paw of the bear, will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go! Yahweh will be with you.”
Psalms 71:14
But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.
Psalms 71:18
Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.
Psalms 71:19
God, your righteousness also reaches to the heavens. You have done great things. God, who is like you?
Psalms 71:20
You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
Psalms 71:21
Increase my honor and comfort me again.
Psalms 71:22
I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 71:23
My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!
Psalms 71:24
My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.
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1 Samuel 26:20
Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”
Psalms 25:3
Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.
Psalms 71:7
I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.
Isaiah 8:17
I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
Isaiah 8:18
Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.
Lamentations 3:25
Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
Zechariah 3:6
Yahweh’s angel solomnly assured Joshua, saying,
Luke 2:34
Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.
Acts 4:13
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.
2 Corinthians 6:8
by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report, as deceivers and yet true,
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1 Chronicles 15:13
For because you didn’t carry it at first, Yahweh our God broke out in anger against us, because we didn’t seek him according to the ordinance.”
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2 Chronicles 25:8
But if you will go, take action, and be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow.”
Psalms 30:6
As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”
Psalms 30:7
You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.
Psalms 73:18
Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
Psalms 73:19
How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
Psalms 73:20
As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
Psalms 102:10
because of your indignation and your wrath; for you have taken me up and thrown me away.
Psalms 147:6
Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.
Jonah 4:7
But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine so that it withered.
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Job 1:13
It fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
Job 1:14
that a messenger came to Job, and said, “The oxen were plowing, and the donkeys feeding beside them,
Job 1:15
and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 1:16
While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 1:17
While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 1:18
While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, “Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
Job 1:19
and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they are dead. I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 2:7
So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
Job 19:10
He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
Psalms 88:13
But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.
Psalms 88:14
Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
Psalms 88:15
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.
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Job 5:18
For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.
Job 13:15
Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
Psalms 27:13
I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.
Psalms 42:7
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
Psalms 42:11
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
Psalms 56:3
When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
Psalms 73:26
My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalms 118:18
Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.
Psalms 119:81
My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
Psalms 119:82
My eyes fail for your word. I say, “When will you comfort me?”
Jeremiah 17:8
For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.
2 Corinthians 4:14
knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus, and will present us with you.
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Psalms 6:1
Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.
Psalms 6:2
Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint. Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
Psalms 25:17
The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.
Psalms 38:1
Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
Psalms 38:3
There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
Psalms 38:4
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
Psalms 38:5
My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness.
Psalms 38:6
I am in pain and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.
Psalms 38:7
For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.
Psalms 38:8
I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
Psalms 77:2
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.
Habakkuk 3:19
Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
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Ezra 10:2
Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.
Job 22:30
He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”
Psalms 27:2
When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Psalms 27:3
Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.
Psalms 112:7
He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.
Isaiah 43:1
But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.
Acts 23:11
The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”
Acts 27:22
Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.
Acts 27:25
Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.
Acts 27:36
Then they all cheered up, and they also took food.
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Psalms 38:2
For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
Psalms 77:3
I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
Psalms 77:4
You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.
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Psalms 39:12
“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
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Psalms 88:16
Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.
Psalms 88:17
They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.
Psalms 88:18
You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.
Lamentations 2:5
The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.
Lamentations 2:6
He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.
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Psalms 116:9
I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.
Psalms 116:10
I believed, therefore I said, “I was greatly afflicted.”
Psalms 116:11
I said in my haste, “All people are liars.”
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Isaiah 13:16
Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
Zechariah 14:2
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
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Isaiah 16:4
Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
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Isaiah 61:10
I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Matthew 10:21
“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.
Matthew 10:22
You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
Luke 24:26
Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”
John 15:20
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.
Acts 5:41
They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.
Acts 16:40
They went out of the prison and entered into Lydia’s house. When they had seen the brothers, they encouraged them, then departed.
Romans 15:4
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
2 Corinthians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
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.
2 Timothy 3:12
Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
Hebrews 10:33
partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions, and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
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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.”
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.
Romans 5:3
Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
Romans 8:17
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.
2 Corinthians 7:7
and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted in you while he told us of your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.
Galatians 6:9
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.
Philippians 3:10
that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,
Hebrews 10:38
But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
Hebrews 12:1
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,
Hebrews 12:2
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
1 Peter 4:13
But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.
Revelation 2:9
“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.
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Jeremiah 37:16
When Jeremiah had come into the dungeon house and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,
Jeremiah 38:6
Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
Lamentations 3:55
I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
Luke 21:12
But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.
Acts 4:3
They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.
Acts 5:18
and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in public custody.
Acts 16:24
Having received such a command, he threw them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks.
Acts 21:27
When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,
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Proverbs 16:3
Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
Matthew 10:23
But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next, for most certainly I tell you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man has come.
Matthew 10:24
“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.
Matthew 10:25
It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
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.
John 12:25
He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
Acts 9:31
So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
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.
Galatians 5:11
But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
Philippians 1:30
having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in 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.
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Acts 19:23
About that time there arose no small disturbance concerning the Way.
Acts 19:24
For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,
Acts 19:25
whom he gathered together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, “Sirs, you know that by this business we have our wealth.
Acts 19:26
You see and hear that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods that are made with hands.
Acts 19:27
Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships.”
Acts 19:28
When they heard this they were filled with anger, and cried out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
Acts 19:29
The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.
Acts 19:30
When Paul wanted to enter in to the people, the disciples didn’t allow him.
Acts 19:31
Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.
Acts 19:32
Some therefore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was in confusion. Most of them didn’t know why they had come together.
Acts 19:33
They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defense to the people.
Acts 19:34
But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”
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Acts 19:35
When the town clerk had quieted the multitude, he said, “You men of Ephesus, what man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the image which fell down from Zeus?
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2 Corinthians 2:12
Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,
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1 Corinthians 16:9
for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
2 Corinthians 2:13
I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.
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Acts 7:30
“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
1 Corinthians 2:3
I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
2 Corinthians 10:10
For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”
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.
Galatians 4:13
but you know that because of weakness in the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time.
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Acts 2:27
because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
Romans 6:14
For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
2 Corinthians 4:15
For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 13:4
For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
Ephesians 2:8
for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
Revelation 15:2
I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.
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Proverbs 24:16
for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
Isaiah 10:4
They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Jeremiah 37:10
For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and only wounded men remained among them, they would each rise up in his tent and burn this city with fire.’ ”
Zechariah 4:7
Who are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you are a plain; and he will bring out the capstone with shouts of ‘Grace, grace, to it!’ ”
Acts 26:18
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
2 Corinthians 4:3
Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying,
2 Corinthians 10:3
For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;
2 Corinthians 10:4
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
Ephesians 6:12
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 6:14
Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Revelation 12:10
I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
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1 Corinthians 3:15
If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
2 Corinthians 6:4
but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God: in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
Philippians 2:18
In the same way, you also should be glad and rejoice with me.
1 Thessalonians 3:2
and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith,
2 Thessalonians 1:4
so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.
2 Timothy 1:8
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,
2 Timothy 2:11
This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.
2 Timothy 2:12
If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.
2 Timothy 2:13
If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”
2 Timothy 2:14
Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord that they don’t argue about words to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.
2 Timothy 3:17
that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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Isaiah 62:4
You will not be called Forsaken any more, nor will your land be called Desolate any more; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.
John 12:26
If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
Philippians 1:21
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
2 Timothy 1:12
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.
2 Timothy 4:6
For I am already being offered, and the time of my departure has come.
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.
Hebrews 10:36
For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
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.
1 Peter 4:14
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
1 Peter 5:10
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.
2 Peter 1:14
knowing that the putting off of my tent comes swiftly, even as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
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