"Blessed are you whenever they revile you, and they persecute you, and they say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.

Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

But I count myself as nothing; nor do I regard my life as valuable to myself, so that I may complete my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear solemn testimony to the gospel of the grace of God.

For our momentary light affliction is working out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,

while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are for a season, but the things which are not seen last forever.

choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to have the temporary pleasure of sin,

regarding the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking to the reward.

Women received their dead [back] by resurrection. And others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, in order that they might obtain a better resurrection.

In which you greatly rejoice, [though for] a little while now, if need be, you have been distressed by various trials,

so that the genuineness of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes, though being tested with fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Whenever Christ [who is] our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

and to give you who are being afflicted rest along with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with His mighty angels,

These shall pay a penalty--eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His might,

Therefore we also pray always concerning you that our God may count you worthy of [this] calling, and may fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power,

to which He called you through our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, stay sober, put your hope fully in the grace brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

but inasmuch as you partake in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, in order that also at the unveiling of His glory, you may rejoice with great happiness.

The elders who are among you I exhort, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed;

Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is.