just as also you have understood us in part, that we are your boasting, as indeed you also are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Now I rejoice, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led to repentance; for you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing.

For I am afraid, lest perhaps when I come, I will not find you as I desire, and that I will be found by you as you do not desire; lest perhaps there [be] contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, disputes, slanders, gossipings, pride, disorders;

having been persuaded of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus;

just as it is right for me to think this concerning you all, because I have you in my heart, both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace.

constantly remembering your work of faith, labor of love, and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father,

knowing, beloved brothers, your election by God.

"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.

Now you are those who have remained with Me in My trials.

so that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel."

And if children, then heirs--heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer together, so that we may also be glorified together.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy [to be compared] with the coming glory to be revealed in us.

No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation, He will also make the way out, [so as for] you to be able to bear it.

so that we ourselves are boasting in you among the churches of God about your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure,

since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

If we endure, we shall also reign with [Him]. If we deny [Him], He also will deny us.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various trials,

But let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.