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explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Messiah,” he said.
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that the Messiah would suffer and, as the first to rise from the dead, would bring the message of light to his own people and to the Gentiles.”
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But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects.
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His father was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him and, after prayer, placed his hands on him and healed him.
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Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
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Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
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Present Suffering and Future Glory
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
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If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.
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If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
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For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.
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If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.
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And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.
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Paul Boasts About His Sufferings
I repeat: Let no one take me for a fool. But if you do, then tolerate me just as you would a fool, so that I may do a little boasting.
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I ask you, therefore, not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.
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For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for him,
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I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
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Paul’s Labor for the Church
Now I rejoice in what I am suffering for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.
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You became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you welcomed the message in the midst of severe suffering with the joy given by the Holy Spirit.
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We had previously suffered and been treated outrageously in Philippi, as you know, but with the help of our God we dared to tell you his gospel in the face of strong opposition.
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For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Judea, which are in Christ Jesus: You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews
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For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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All this is evidence that God’s judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.
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holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith.
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So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God.
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That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.
