2 Corinthians 6:4
but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God: in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
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2 Corinthians 6:4
but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God: in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
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Genesis 42:11
We are all one man’s sons; we are honest men. Your servants are not spies.”
Genesis 42:19
If you are honest men, then let one of your brothers be bound in your prison; but you go, carry grain for the famine of your houses.
Genesis 42:33
The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.
Genesis 42:34
Bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. So I will deliver your brother to you, and you shall trade in the land.’ ”
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Deuteronomy 11:14
that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.
Jeremiah 5:24
They don’t say in their heart, ‘Let’s now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
Joel 2:23
“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.
Zechariah 10:1
Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
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1 Samuel 2:1
Hannah prayed, and said, “My heart exults in Yahweh! My horn is exalted in Yahweh. My mouth is enlarged over my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.
Isaiah 54:2
“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations; don’t spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.
Isaiah 60:5
Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea will be turned to you. The wealth of the nations will come to you.
Revelation 21:26
and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that they may enter.
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Job 32:1
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
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Psalms 73:23
Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.
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Ezekiel 14:11
that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
2 Corinthians 6:14
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
2 Corinthians 6:15
What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?
2 Corinthians 6:16
What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
2 Corinthians 6:17
Therefore “ ‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
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Daniel 9:3
I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Matthew 6:16
“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
Matthew 6:17
But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
Luke 5:35
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”
Acts 13:2
As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”
Acts 13:3
Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
1 Corinthians 7:5
Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
1 Corinthians 7:26
Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, it’s good for a man to remain as he is.
Hebrews 3:7
Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
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Joel 1:9
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.
Joel 1:13
Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.
Joel 2:17
Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”
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John 7:18
He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
Acts 20:18
When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,
Acts 20:34
You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
1 Corinthians 9:4
Have we no right to eat and to drink?
1 Corinthians 9:11
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:6
nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
1 Thessalonians 2:11
As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
1 Timothy 2:15
but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness with sobriety.
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Acts 17:5
But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
Acts 17:6
When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,
Acts 17:7
whom Jason has received. These all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus!”
Acts 17:8
The multitude and the rulers of the city were troubled when they heard these things.
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Romans 5:8
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
1 Corinthians 1:5
that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge—
1 Corinthians 1:6
even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you—
1 Corinthians 1:7
so that you come behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Corinthians 9:2
If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 14:18
I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.
2 Corinthians 8:21
Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
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 11:4
For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news” which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.
2 Corinthians 11:6
But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
Philippians 4:14
However you did well that you shared in my affliction.
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Romans 10:14
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
Romans 10:15
And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”
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Romans 8:13
For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
1 Corinthians 6:12
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.
1 Corinthians 6:13
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 8:13
Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.
1 Corinthians 9:25
Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
1 Corinthians 9:27
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
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Matthew 24:45
“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
Luke 1:2
even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,
1 Corinthians 12:29
Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers?
1 Corinthians 16:10
Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.
2 Corinthians 5:20
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 9:12
For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through much giving of thanks to God,
2 Corinthians 10:1
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.
Philippians 2:25
But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, fellow soldier, and your apostle and servant of my need,
Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
1 Timothy 3:6
not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
2 Peter 1:8
For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 John 1:3
that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
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Romans 8:18
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
2 Corinthians 1:9
Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,
2 Corinthians 1:10
who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver, on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us,
2 Corinthians 4:9
pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;
2 Corinthians 4:10
always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
2 Corinthians 4:11
For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
2 Corinthians 4:12
So then death works in us, but life in you.
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,
2 Corinthians 11:28
Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
1 Thessalonians 3:3
that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
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 3:12
Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
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Jeremiah 38:13
So they lifted Jeremiah up with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
Acts 9:16
For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”
Acts 20:23
except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
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.”
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.
2 Corinthians 11:30
If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.
2 Corinthians 12:8
Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
2 Corinthians 12:9
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,
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 3:11
persecutions, and sufferings—those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.
Hebrews 11:37
They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—
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Proverbs 1:7
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 27:2
Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.
Romans 15:18
For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
1 Corinthians 9:16
For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.
2 Corinthians 10:8
For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,
2 Corinthians 10:12
For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
2 Corinthians 10:15
not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
James 3:13
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
1 Peter 3:7
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
2 Peter 3:18
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.
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2 Corinthians 11:7
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
1 Thessalonians 2:3
For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
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Matthew 13:27
The servants of the householder came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where did these darnel weeds come from?’
Romans 15:19
in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;
1 Corinthians 3:6
I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
1 Corinthians 3:8
Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
1 Corinthians 9:17
For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
1 Corinthians 9:18
What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
1 Corinthians 12:28
God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.
Ephesians 3:7
of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.
Titus 1:8
but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,
1 Peter 3:16
having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.
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Romans 8:24
For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
Romans 8:25
But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
Galatians 5:5
For we through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
Galatians 6:9
Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.
Hebrews 10:32
But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:
Hebrews 10:33
partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions, and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
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 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.
Hebrews 12:3
For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.
James 1:3
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
James 5:8
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
Revelation 3:10
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.
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Ephesians 6:21
But that you also may know my affairs, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things.
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2 Corinthians 1:4
who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 1:6
But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
2 Corinthians 7:5
For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.
2 Corinthians 7:14
For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.
2 Corinthians 11:29
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
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.
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Colossians 4:7
All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.
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1 Timothy 4:13
Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
1 Timothy 4:14
Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the elders.
1 Timothy 4:15
Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.
1 Timothy 4:16
Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
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1 Corinthians 13:7
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Hebrews 6:15
Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
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.
James 5:9
Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
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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1 Thessalonians 1:4
We know, brothers loved by God, that you are chosen,
James 2:18
Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
James 2:19
You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder.
James 2:20
But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
James 2:21
Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
James 2:22
You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.
James 2:23
So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.
James 2:24
You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.
James 2:25
In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
James 2:26
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
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