Romans 8:35
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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?
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John 10:28
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28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.(A)
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John 16:33
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33 I have said this to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you face persecution, but take courage: I have conquered the world!”(A)
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Psalm 103:17
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17 But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting
on those who fear him,
and his righteousness to children’s children,
Romans 5:3-5
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3 And not only that, but we[a] also boast in our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance,(A) 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 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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- 5.3 Or let us
2 Corinthians 4:17
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17 For our slight, momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure,(A)
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1 Peter 4:12-14
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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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Romans 8:39
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39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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2 Timothy 4:16-18
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16 At my first defense no one came to my support, but all deserted me. May it not be counted against them! 17 But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.(A) 18 The Lord will rescue me from every evil attack and save me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.(B)
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2 Timothy 1:12
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12 and for this reason I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know the one in whom I have put my trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.[a](A)
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- 1.12 Or the deposit he has entrusted to me
1 Corinthians 4:11
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11 To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are naked and beaten and homeless,(A)
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Revelation 7:14-17
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14 I said to him, “Sir, you are the one who knows.” Then he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great ordeal; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.(A)
15 For this reason they are before the throne of God
and worship him day and night within his temple,
and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them.(B)
16 They will hunger no more and thirst no more;
the sun will not strike them,
nor any scorching heat,(C)
17 for the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd,
and he will guide them to springs of the water of life,
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”(D)
1 Peter 1:5-7
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5 who are being protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.(A) 6 In this you rejoice,[a] even if now for a little while you have had to suffer various trials,(B) 7 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.(C)
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- 1.6 Or Rejoice in this
Luke 21:12-18
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12 “But before all this occurs, they will arrest you and persecute you; they will hand you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of my name.(A) 13 This will give you an opportunity to testify.(B) 14 So make up your minds not to prepare your defense in advance,(C) 15 for I will give you words[a] and a wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to withstand or contradict.(D) 16 You will be betrayed even by parents and siblings, by relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death.(E) 17 You will be hated by all because of my name.(F) 18 But not a hair of your head will perish.(G)
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- 21.15 Gk a mouth
Matthew 10:28-31
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28 Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, fear the one who can destroy both soul and body in hell.[a] 29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. 30 And even the hairs of your head are all counted.(A) 31 So do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.
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- 10.28 Gk Gehenna
Hebrews 12:3-11
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3 Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners,[a] so that you may not grow weary in your souls or lose heart.(A) 4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as children—
“My child, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord
or lose heart when you are punished by him,(B)
6 for the Lord disciplines those whom he loves
and chastises every child whom he accepts.”(C)
7 Endure trials for the sake of discipline. God is treating you as children, for what child is there whom a parent does not discipline?(D) 8 If you do not have that discipline in which all children share, then you are illegitimate and not his children.(E) 9 Moreover, we had human parents to discipline us, and we respected them. Should we not be even more willing to be subject to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share his holiness.(F) 11 Now, discipline always seems painful rather than pleasant at the time, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.(G)
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- 12.3 Other ancient authorities read such hostility from sinners against themselves
2 Thessalonians 2:16
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16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and through grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,
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2 Corinthians 6:4-10
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4 but as servants of God we have commended ourselves in every way: in great endurance, afflictions, hardships, calamities, 5 beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger;(A) 6 in purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, holiness of spirit, genuine love, 7 truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;(B) 8 in honor and dishonor, in ill repute and good repute. We are treated as impostors and yet are true, 9 as unknown and yet are well known, as dying and look—we are alive, as punished and yet not killed,(C) 10 as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing everything.
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Romans 8:17
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17 and if children, then heirs: heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if we in fact suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.(A)
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2 Thessalonians 2:13-14
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Chosen for Salvation
13 But we must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the first fruits[a] for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.(A) 14 For this purpose he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.(B)
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- 2.13 Other ancient authorities read from the beginning
Acts 20:23-24
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23 except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.(A) 24 But I do not count my life of any value to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.(B)
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John 13:1
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Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet
13 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.(A)
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Matthew 5:10-12
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10 “Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.(A)
11 “Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely[a] on my account.(B) 12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.(C)
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- 5.11 Other ancient authorities lack falsely
Jeremiah 31:3
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3 the Lord appeared to him[a] from far away.[b]
I have loved you with an everlasting love;
therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.(A)
Revelation 1:5
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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 freed[a] us from our sins by his blood
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- 1.5 Other ancient authorities read washed
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