2 Corinthians 6:5
in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,
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2 Corinthians 6:5
in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings,
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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.
James 5:7
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
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Deuteronomy 25:3
He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more, lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.
Matthew 10:16
“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Matthew 10:18
Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
Matthew 24:9
“Then they will deliver you up to oppression and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.
Matthew 25:36
I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.’
Mark 13:9
“But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.
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 5:40
They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
Acts 8:3
But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.
Acts 15:26
men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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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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2 Samuel 12:16
David therefore begged God for the child; and David fasted, and went in and lay all night on the ground.
2 Samuel 12:21
Then his servants said to him, “What is this that you have done? You fasted and wept for the child while he was alive, but when the child was dead, you rose up and ate bread.”
Nehemiah 1:4
When I heard these words, I sat down and wept, and mourned several days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,
Esther 4:16
“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
Psalms 35:13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
Psalms 69:10
When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.
Psalms 109:24
My knees are weak through fasting. My body is thin and lacks fat.
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Jeremiah 37:21
Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
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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.
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Ezekiel 3:17
“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.
Mark 13:34
“It is like a man traveling to another country, having left his house and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.
Mark 13:35
Watch therefore, for you don’t know when the lord of the house is coming—whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;
Mark 13:36
lest, coming suddenly, he might find you sleeping.
Mark 13:37
What I tell you, I tell all: Watch!”
Acts 20:31
Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
2 Timothy 4:5
But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
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Matthew 5:25
Agree with your adversary quickly while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
Matthew 14:3
For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.
Matthew 18:30
He would not, but went and cast him into prison until he should pay back that which was due.
Mark 6:17
For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her.
Mark 6:27
Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard and commanded to bring John’s head; and he went and beheaded him in the prison,
Luke 2:8
There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.
Luke 12:58
For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
Luke 23:19
one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.
John 3:24
for John was not yet thrown into prison.
Acts 5:19
But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out and said,
Revelation 20:7
And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison
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Matthew 6:17
But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
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Matthew 15:32
Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they have continued with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.”
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Mark 2:20
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
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Mark 8:3
If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way.”
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Mark 9:29
He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but by prayer and fasting.”
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Luke 5:35
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”
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Matthew 5:12
Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Acts 15:2
Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul, Barnabas, and some others of them to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
Acts 16:20
When they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men, being Jews, are agitating our city
Acts 16:33
He took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes, and was immediately baptized, he and all his household.
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.
1 Corinthians 13:7
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
1 Thessalonians 5:12
But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
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.
Revelation 2:10
Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
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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Acts 15:41
He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the assemblies.
Acts 16:6
When they had gone through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.
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Acts 16:37
But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”
Acts 22:24
the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.
Acts 22:25
When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?”
Acts 22:26
When the centurion heard it, he went to the commanding officer and told him, “Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman!”
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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 18:6
When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”
Acts 18:13
saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”
Acts 18:14
But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked crime, you Jews, it would be reasonable that I should bear with you;
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 21:30
All the city was moved and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.
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 3:16
For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
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.
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Acts 18:23
Having spent some time there, he departed and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.
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Acts 20:5
But these had gone ahead, and were waiting for us at Troas.
Acts 20:6
We sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.
Acts 20:7
On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day; and continued his speech until midnight.
Acts 20:8
There were many lights in the upper room where we were gathered together.
Acts 20:9
A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was taken up dead.
Acts 20:10
Paul went down and fell upon him, and embracing him said, “Don’t be troubled, for his life is in him.”
Acts 20:11
When he had gone up, had broken bread and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.
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Acts 27:9
When much time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because the Fast had now already gone by, Paul admonished them
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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,
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 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 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 12:12
Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.
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Romans 16:7
Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who were also in Christ before me.
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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.
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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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2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God and not from ourselves.
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 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 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 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.
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 11:6
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.
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.
Galatians 6:17
From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.
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,
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Luke 8:15
Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.
Romans 2:7
to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
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.
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.
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 6:15
Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
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.
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.
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1 Corinthians 16:16
that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.
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 4:3
Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.
Colossians 1:29
for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
1 Thessalonians 2:2
but having suffered before and been shamefully treated, as you know, at Philippi, we grew bold in our God to tell you the Good News of God in much conflict.
1 Timothy 5:17
Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
2 Timothy 2:10
Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Hebrews 10:32
But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
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.
Revelation 2:2
“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.
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1 Corinthians 9:4
Have we no right to eat and to drink?
1 Corinthians 9:6
Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?
1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
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 2:10
You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
2 Thessalonians 3:7
For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you,
2 Thessalonians 3:9
This was not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
Titus 1:8
but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,
Titus 2:7
In all things show yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, show integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
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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.
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 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.
Revelation 15:1
I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished.
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