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.

in everything being oppressed, yet not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;

always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, so that also the life of Jesus may be revealed in our body.

We give no occasion for offense in anything, lest the ministry be blamed,

in stripes, in imprisonments, in disturbances, in labors, in sleepless nights, in fastings;

through the word of truth, through the power of God, through the weapons of righteousness on the right hand and on the left hand,

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

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--

in which I endure hardship unto chains as an evildoer; but the word of God is not chained.

Because of this, I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

You however have carefully followed my doctrine, lifestyle, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance,

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

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

Therefore let us go out to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

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.

For let not anyone of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or as a meddler in other people's affairs;

Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to put their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who provides all things richly for us to enjoy,

And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them; and He shall rescue them from sinners, and save them, because they have hoped in Him.

But I am as a fruitful olive in the house of God; I have trusted in the mercy of God forever, even forevermore.

O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in You!

[It is] better to trust in the Lord than to trust in man.

Behold, my God is my Savior; I will trust in Him, and not be afraid; for the Lord is my glory and my praise, and has become my salvation.

Who is among you that fears the Lord? Let him hearken to the voice of His servant; you that walk in darkness, and have no light, trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon God.

But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.

And King Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, [and] Abed-Nego, who has sent His angel, and delivered His servants, because they trusted in Him; and they have changed the king's word, and delivered their bodies to be burned, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

The Lord is good to them that wait on Him in the day of affliction; and He knows them that reverence Him.

He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now if He'll [have] Him; for He said, 'I am the Son of God.'"

And again, Isaiah says: "There shall be the root of Jesse; and He that shall rise to rule over the Gentiles, in Him the Gentiles shall hope."

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

but if I am delayed, [I write] so that you may know how it is necessary to conduct oneself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth.

who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.

who gave Himself a ransom for all, the testimony in due time;

Your righteousness is as the mountains of God, Your judgments are as a great deep; O Lord, You will preserve men and beasts.

Let the redeemed of the Lord say [so], whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy;

Then they cried to the Lord in their affliction, and He delivered them out of their distresses.

Let them acknowledge to the Lord His mercies, and His wonderful works to the children of men.

[even] them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death, fettered in poverty and irons;

So their heart was brought low with troubles; they were weak, and there was no helper.

And He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their chains in pieces.

For He broke to pieces the bronze gates, and crushed the iron bars.

Their soul abhorred all food; and they drew near to the gates of death.

He sent His word, and healed them, and delivered them out of their destructions.

And let them offer to Him the sacrifice of praise, and proclaim His works with exaltation.

these have seen the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep.

They go up to the heavens, and go down to the depths; their soul melts because of troubles.

Then they cry to the Lord in their affliction, and He brings them out of their distresses.

And they are glad, because they are quiet; and He guides them to their desired haven.

Let them exalt Him in the congregation of the people, and praise Him in the seat of the elders.

a fruitful land into saltness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it.

And there He causes the hungry to dwell, and they establish for themselves cities of habitation.

And He blesses them, and they multiply exceedingly, and He diminishes not the number of their cattle.

Contempt is poured upon their princes, and He causes them to wander in a desert, and in a trackless land.

The upright shall see and rejoice; and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

If they will declare, let them draw near, that they may know together, who has caused these things to be heard from the beginning; then was it told you. I am God, and there is not another beside Me; a just [God] and a Savior; there is none besides Me.

Turn to Me, and you shall be saved, you that [come] from the end of the earth; I am God, and there is none other.

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

that everyone who believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send His Son into the world so that He might condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not only concerning ours, but also concerning [those] of the whole world.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.

"Most assuredly I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

He that believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; he that does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony which God has testified concerning His Son.

He that has the Son has life; he that does not have the Son of God does not have life.