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.

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.

But blessed is the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not the chastening of the Almighty.

Blessed is the man whom You shall chasten, O Lord, and shall teach him out of Your law;

Before I was afflicted, I transgressed; therefore have I kept Your word.

[It is] good for me that You have afflicted me; that I might learn Your statutes.

I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are righteousness, and [that] You in truthfulness have afflicted me.

[My] son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him:

for whom the Lord loves, He rebukes, and scourges every son whom He receives.

And so, after he had been patient, he obtained the promise.

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

And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: "My son, do not despise the discipline of the LORD, nor be discouraged when you are reproved;

As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness, that He might afflict you, and try you, and that the things in your heart might be made manifest, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

you shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or the dreamer of that dream, because the Lord your God is testing you, to see whether you love your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

As silver and gold are tried in a furnace, so are choice hearts with the Lord.

And I will bring the third [part] through the fire, and I will try them as silver is tried, and I will prove them as gold is proved: they shall call upon My name, and I will hear them, and say, This is My people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

And who will abide the day of His coming? Or who will withstand at His appearing? For He is coming in as the fire of a furnace and as the herb of fullers.

He shall sit to melt and purify as it were silver, and as it were gold: and He shall purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver, and they shall offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, had offered up Isaac, and he that received the promises offered up his only begotten [son],

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.

But may the God of all grace, the [One] having called you into His eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little [while], may He Himself make you complete--He will establish, strengthen, [and] firmly ground [you].

Then the King will say to those on His right hand, 'Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

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."

to those who by the endurance of good works are seeking glory and honor and incorruption--eternal life.

tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that works evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek;

And everyone who competes exercises self-control [in] all things. Now they [compete] in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we [compete] [for] an imperishable crown.

Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not only to me, but also to all those who have loved His appearing.

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.

but inasmuch as you partake in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, in order that also at the unveiling of His glory, you may rejoice with great happiness.

And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

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.

He that overcomes, I will grant to him to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Did God not choose the poor of the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those that love Him?

From of old we have not heard, neither have our eyes seen a God besides You, and Your works which You will perform to them that wait for mercy.

And you will be hated by all [people] for My name's sake. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

So Jesus said to them, "Assuredly I say to you, that in the Regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit eternal life.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Did God not choose the poor of the world [to be] rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those that love Him?

and bestowing mercy on them that love Me, to [the] thousands [of them,] and on them that keep My commandments.

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,

And I said, I pray, O Lord God of heaven, the mighty [One], the great and terrible, keeping Your covenant and mercy to them that love Him, and to those that keep His commandments.

But let all that trust in You be glad in You: they shall rejoice forever, and You shall dwell among them; and all that love Your name shall rejoice in You.

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

But as it is written: "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him."

But if anyone loves God, this one has been known by Him.

Whom not having seen, you love, in whom now not seeing, but believing, you rejoice with inexpressible joy and glorified,

We love Him because He first loved us.