Your feet run, and they cause you to faint; how will you prepare [to ride] upon horses? And you have been confident in the land of your peace? How will you do in the roaring of the Jordan?

For then there shall be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until now, nor by any means shall be.

Then if someone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'There!' do not believe [it].

And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil [one]."

And the Lord said, "Simon, Simon! Behold, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat.

Then He said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise up and pray, lest you enter into temptation."

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I [am] even more: in labors far more, in beatings immeasurably, in imprisonments far more, in deaths often.

Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have spent in the depth [of the sea].

in labor and hardship, in sleepless nights often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness--

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual [forces] of evil in the heavenlies.

Because of this, take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having accomplished all things, to stand.

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

They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were tried, they were slain, being murdered with the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, being in want, being afflicted, being ill treated,

You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed, struggling against sin.

My brothers, take the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord, as an example of evil suffering and of longsuffering.

Indeed we count those blessed who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you saw the end of the Lord--that He is compassionate and He is merciful.

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.

Be sober, be watchful; your adversary the devil walks about as a roaring lion, seeking someone he may devour.

Resist him, being steadfast in [your] faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.

Fear none of those things which you are about to suffer. Behold indeed, the devil is about to cast [some] of you into prison, so that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those that dwell upon the earth.

God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

You shall know therefore, that the Lord your God, He [is] God, a faithful God, who keeps covenant and mercy for them that love Him, and for those that keep His commandments to a thousand generations,

O Lord, Your mercy is in the heavens; and Your truth [reaches] to the clouds.

But My mercy I will not utterly remove from him, nor wrong My truth.

And He shall have His loins girded with righteousness, and His sides clothed with truth.

O Lord God, I will glorify You, I will sing to Your name; for You have done wonderful things, [even] an ancient [and] faithful counsel. Amen.

Thus says the Lord that delivered you, the God of Israel, Sanctify him that despises his life, him that is abhorred by the nations that are the servants of princes; kings shall behold him, and princes shall arise, and shall worship him, for the Lord's sake; for the Holy One of Israel is faithful, and I have chosen you.

They are new every morning: great is Your faithfulness.

and I will betroth you to Myself in faithfulness: and you shall know the Lord.

He who calls you is faithful, who also will do [this].

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and will guard you from the evil one.

Faithful is this word: For if we died with [Him], we shall also live with [Him].

If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.

in order that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong encouragement, who have fled to take hold of the hope being set before [us];

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

By faith Sarah herself also received power for conception of seed, and she bore a child past the normal age, because she regarded [Him] faithful who had promised.

Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God entrust their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.

And He said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of the Egyptians to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Girgashites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.

For the Lord will not allow the rod of sinners to be upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous should stretch forth their hands to iniquity.

For our God whom we serve is in the heavens, able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He shall rescue us from your hands, O king.

But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers."

And I give to them eternal life, and they shall never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

I and the Father are one."

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up on behalf of us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

Who is he that condemns? Christ is the [One] having died, but rather also having been raised, who is even at [the] right [hand] of God, who also intercedes on our behalf.

Just as it is written: "For Your sake we are put to death the whole day long; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter."

For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,

who delivered us from so great a death, and is delivering [us]; in whom we trust that He will still deliver [us],

Concerning this I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His heavenly kingdom. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen!

who by the power of God [are] being guarded through faith for the salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

then the Lord knows [how] to deliver the godly out of temptation and [how] to keep the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment,

Behold, this city is near for me to escape to, which is a small one, and there shall I be preserved, is it not little? And my soul shall live because of you.

And he said to him, Behold, I have had respect to you also about this thing, that I should not overthrow the city about which you have spoken.

Our soul has been delivered as a sparrow from the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are delivered.

And I will devise for you a plan of peace, and not evil, to bestow upon you these [good things].

And besides all this, between us and you a great gulf has been fixed, so that those who desire to cross [over] from here to you are not able, nor may those from there cross over to us.'

and the rest, some on boards and others on parts from the ship. And in this way it came about that all were brought to safety.

Indeed we count those blessed who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you saw the end of the Lord--that He is compassionate and He is merciful.