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

and not being terrified in anything by your enemies, which is to them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and this from God.

If you are reviled in the name of Christ, blessed are you, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On the one hand He is blasphemed, but on the other He is glorified.

but if anyone [suffers] as a Christian, let him not be put to shame, but let him glorify God in this matter.

And "If the righteous [one] is scarcely saved, where will the godless and the sinner appear?"

Will the Lord be unjust when He judges; or will He that has made all things pervert justice?

but the Lord endures forever; He has prepared His throne for judgment.

And He will judge the world in righteousness, He will judge the nations in uprightness.

He loves mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.

And the heavens shall declare His righteousness; for God is Judge. Pause.

[that he may] judge Your people with righteousness, and Your poor with judgment.

And the king's honor loves judgment; You have prepared equity, You have established judgment and justice in Jacob.

The works of His hands are truth and judgment; all His commandments are sure;

but let him that boasts boast in this: the understanding and knowing that I am the Lord that exercises mercy, and judgment, and righteousness upon the earth; for in these things is My pleasure, says the Lord.

Now therefore, I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and greatly exalt and glorify the King of heaven; for all His works are true, and His paths are judgment: and all that walk in pride He is able to abase.

But according to your hardness and impenitent heart you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God,

Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For all [nations] shall come and worship before You, because Your righteous judgments have been manifested."

And I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous [are] Your judgments."

For true and righteous are His judgments, for He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He has avenged the blood of His servants [shed] by her hand."

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,

But those who have been counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;

Watch therefore, praying always that you may be counted worthy to escape everything that is about to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."

But Paul and Barnabas, speaking boldly said, "It was necessary for the word of God to be spoken to you first; but since you thrust it away, and judge yourselves not worthy of eternal life; behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.

You have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they will walk with Me in white, because they are worthy.

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,

strengthening the souls of the disciples, urging [them] to continue in the faith, [saying], "Through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God."

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 you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you suffered the same things from your fellow countrymen, just as also they did by the Jews,

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

But remember the former days, in which after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle of sufferings,

in part being exposed publicly, both to reproaches and to afflictions, and in part having become partners of those treated in this way.