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.
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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.
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1 Samuel 25:36
Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing until the morning light.
Ezekiel 28:24
“ ‘ “There will no longer be a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them that scorned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”
Malachi 3:18
Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.
Luke 16:26
Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’
James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
James 5:3
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
James 5:5
You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
James 5:6
You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
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1 Chronicles 16:10
Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
Psalms 106:5
that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance.
Isaiah 41:16
You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away, and the whirlwind will scatter them. You will rejoice in Yahweh. You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 9:23
Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
Jeremiah 9:24
But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.
Romans 2:17
Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,
Romans 4:2
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
1 Corinthians 1:31
that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 3:21
Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,
2 Corinthians 10:17
But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
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Psalms 49:14
They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
Hosea 2:14
“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.
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.
Matthew 19:28
Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Matthew 19:29
Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
Mark 10:29
Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,
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 22:29
I confer on you a kingdom, even as my Father conferred on me,
Luke 22:30
that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
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.
John 14:2
In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
John 16:4
But I have told you these things so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
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Psalms 119:67
Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
Psalms 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.
Isaiah 27:9
Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.
Daniel 12:10
Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined, but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.
Hebrews 12:10
For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
Hebrews 12:11
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
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Matthew 5:11
“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Acts 9:16
For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
Philippians 1:20
according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.
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,
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,
Hebrews 10:35
Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,
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.
1 Peter 4:15
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.
Revelation 2:3
You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
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Matthew 10:37
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
Luke 14:27
Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross and come after me, can’t be my disciple.
Luke 14:28
For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
Luke 14:29
Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
Luke 14:30
saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’
Luke 14:31
Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
Luke 14:32
Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace.
Luke 14:33
So therefore, whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.
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Matthew 24:21
for then there will be great suffering, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
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Matthew 24:29
“But immediately after the suffering of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
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Mark 13:19
For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.
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Mark 13:24
But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,
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Luke 22:28
“But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.
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.
Titus 1:2
in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—
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Acts 17:1
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue.
Acts 17:13
But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Beroea also, they came there likewise, agitating the multitudes.
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Romans 1:8
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.
Colossians 1:3
We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,
Colossians 1:4
having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,
1 Thessalonians 1:2
We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,
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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 1:8
who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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1 Corinthians 4:7
For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
2 Corinthians 11:1
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
2 Corinthians 11:18
Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
James 4:16
But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
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1 Corinthians 12:12
For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
Revelation 2:19
“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.
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Acts 7:10
and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
2 Corinthians 1:5
For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.
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 1:7
Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.
2 Corinthians 1:8
For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
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 4:8
We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;
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.
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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,
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2 Corinthians 10:16
so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.
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Jeremiah 25:29
For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You will not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.” ’
Zephaniah 3:12
But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.
Romans 2:4
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
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 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 4:17
For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,
2 Corinthians 12:10
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
Ephesians 3:13
Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
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,
James 1:2
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,
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.
Revelation 2:13
“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
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Matthew 26:35
Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you.” All of the disciples also said likewise.
2 Corinthians 6:4
but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God: in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,
2 Corinthians 9:4
lest by any means, if anyone from Macedonia comes there with me and finds you unprepared, we (to say nothing of you) would be disappointed in this confident boasting.
Ephesians 6:16
above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.
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 3:10
that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed to his death,
Colossians 2:6
As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,
Colossians 3:13
bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
1 Thessalonians 5:14
We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.
2 Thessalonians 3:1
Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,
Titus 2:10
not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.
1 Peter 5:9
Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.
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Romans 9:27
Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;
1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,
2 Thessalonians 2:14
to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2:15
So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.
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Romans 3:2
Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.
Romans 3:3
For what if some were without faith? Will their lack of faith nullify the faithfulness of God?
1 Timothy 1:11
according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
1 Timothy 6:14
that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Timothy 6:20
Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,
2 Timothy 1:13
Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 1:14
That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
2 Timothy 3:14
But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.
Titus 1:9
holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
Revelation 3:3
Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
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Psalms 55:22
Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
Psalms 112:6
For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.
Acts 2:25
For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.
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 5:5
and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to 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 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
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,
Philippians 3:19
whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.
Colossians 1:23
if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
Hebrews 3:6
but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
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James 1:9
Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
James 1:11
For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass; and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.
James 2:6
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and personally drag you before the courts?
James 2:7
Don’t they blaspheme the honorable name by which you are called?
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Matthew 5:3
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Matthew 5:10
Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Romans 2:8
but to those who are self-seeking and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath, indignation,
Romans 12:14
Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.
1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
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 2:10
For it became him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
Hebrews 10:33
partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions, and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
Hebrews 11:36
Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
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—
1 Peter 4:16
But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
Revelation 17:6
I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.
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2 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
1 Thessalonians 1:7
so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
1 Thessalonians 2:20
For you are our glory and our joy.
1 Thessalonians 3:1
Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,
1 Thessalonians 3:8
For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
Philemon 1:7
For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
3 John 1:3
For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.
3 John 1:12
Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.
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1 Thessalonians 4:13
But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
Revelation 5:10
and made us kings and priests to our God; and we will reign on the earth.”
Revelation 6:10
They cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
Revelation 6:11
A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.
Revelation 11:18
The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints and those who fear your name, to the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
Revelation 12:2
She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth.
Revelation 13:1
Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
Revelation 13:10
If anyone is to go into captivity, he will go into captivity. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, he must be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.
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.”
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.
Revelation 20:4
I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Revelation 20:6
Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.
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