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We are afflicted in every way but not crushed, perplexed but not driven to despair,

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Faith and Wisdom

My brothers and sisters, whenever you face various trials, consider it all joy,(A) because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance complete its work, so that you may be complete and whole, lacking in nothing.

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35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? 36 As it is written,

“For your sake we are being killed all day long;
    we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”(A)

37 No, in all these things we are more than victorious through him who loved us.(B)

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Suffering as a Christian

12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. 13 But rejoice insofar as you are sharing Christ’s sufferings, so that you may also be glad and shout for joy when his glory is revealed.(A) 14 If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the spirit of glory,[a] which is the Spirit of God,[b] is resting on you.[c](B)

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  1. 4.14 Other ancient authorities add and of power
  2. 4.14 Or spirit of glory and of God
  3. 4.14 Other ancient authorities add On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified

10 Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.(A)

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my enemies trample on me all day long,
    for many fight against me.
O Most High,(A) when I am afraid,
    I put my trust in you.(B)

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For even when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way—disputes without and fears within.(A)

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In this you rejoice,[a] even if now for a little while you have had to suffer various trials,(A) so that the genuineness of your faith—being more precious than gold that, though perishable, is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.(B)

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  1. 1.6 Or Rejoice in this

And not only that, but we[a] also boast in our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance,(A) and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.(B)

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  1. 5.3 Or let us

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still persist in your integrity? Curse[a] God and die.” 10 But he said to her, “You speak as any foolish woman would speak. Shall we receive good from God and not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.(A)

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  1. 2.9 Heb Bless

We do not want you to be ignorant, brothers and sisters, of the affliction we experienced in Asia, for we were so utterly, unbearably crushed that we despaired of life itself.(A) Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death so that we would rely not on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 10 He who rescued us from so deadly a peril will continue to rescue us;[a] on him we have set our hope that he will rescue us again,(B)

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  1. 1.10 Other ancient authorities read is rescuing us or lack the phrase

33 The Lord will not abandon them to their power
    or let them be condemned when they are brought to trial.(A)

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Living by Faith

16 So we do not lose heart. Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day.(A) 17 For our slight, momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure,(B)

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18 “I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you.

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13 No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.(A)

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23 Are they ministers of Christ? I am talking like a madman—I am a better one: with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless floggings, and often near death.(A) 24 Five times I have received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.(B) 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked; for a night and a day I was adrift at sea;(C) 26 on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from bandits, danger from my own people, danger from gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers and sisters;(D) 27 in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, hungry and thirsty, often without food,[a] cold and naked.(E) 28 And, besides other things, I am under daily pressure because of my anxiety for all the churches. 29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I am not indignant?(F)

30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.(G)

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  1. 11.27 Gk with frequent fasting

but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: in great endurance, afflictions, hardships, calamities,

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26 In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence,
    and one’s children will have a refuge.(A)

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15 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul answered, “I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams, so I have summoned you to tell me what I should do.”(A)

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David was in great danger, for the people spoke of stoning him because all the people were bitter in spirit for their sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.(A)

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10 The name of the Lord is a strong tower;
    the righteous run into it and are safe.(A)

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