For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong. And this also we pray, that you may be made complete.

And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, O that You would indeed bless me, and enlarge my coasts, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would make me know that You will not grieve me! And God granted him all that he asked.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil [one]. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

I do not ask that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil [one].

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all perception,

having been filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Now [may] the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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!

but in everything commending ourselves as ministers of God: in much endurance, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses,

For not he who commends himself is approved, but he whom the Lord commends.

Greet Apelles, approved in Christ. Greet those from the [household] of Aristobulus.

For there must also be sects among you, in order that those who are approved may become recognized among you.

Be diligent to show yourself approved unto God, a worker unashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation; because when he is approved, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love Him.

having regard for honorable things, not only before the Lord, but also before men.

Repay no one evil for evil; providing that which is good before all men.

Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelries and drinking bouts, not in orgies and debaucheries, not in strife and jealousy.

Finally, brothers, as many things as are true, as many as are honorable, as many as are just, as many as are pure, as many as are lovely--if there is any virtue and if there is any praise--meditate on these things.

on behalf of kings and all those who are in authority, that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

having your manner of life noble among the Gentiles, so that, whenever they speak against you as evildoers, when they observe the good works, they may glorify God in the day of visitation.

by honor and dishonor, by ill repute and good repute; as deceivers, and yet true;

as being unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as being disciplined, and not being put to death;

"For his letters," they say, "are severe and boisterous, but his bodily presence [is] feeble, and his speech amounts to nothing."

For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men appointed to death; for we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are naked, and beaten, and homeless.

being defamed, we encourage; we have become as the sweepings of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.