Bible Cross References
we were
1 Thessalonians 3:8
For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 3:9
For what thanks can we render to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sake before our God,
2 Corinthians 1:4
who encourages us in all our affliction, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any affliction, through the comfort by which we ourselves are encouraged by God.
2 Corinthians 7:6
Nevertheless God, who encourages the downcast, encouraged us by the coming of Titus,
2 Corinthians 7:7
and not only by his coming, but also by the comfort with which he was encouraged in you, when he told us of your earnest desire, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.
2 Corinthians 7:13
Therefore we have been encouraged in your comfort. And we rejoiced exceedingly more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.
2 John 1:4
I rejoiced greatly because I have found some of your children walking in truth, as we received commandment from the Father.
in all
Acts 17:4-10
4
And some of them were persuaded; and a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Paul and Silas.
5
But the Jews who were not persuaded, becoming envious, took some of the baser sort from the marketplace, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and came upon the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
6
But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, These who have turned the world upside down have come here, too;
7
whom Jason has received, and these are all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king, Jesus.
8
And they troubled the crowd and the rulers of the city when they heard these things.
9
So when they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
10
Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
9
For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we became spectacles to all creation, both to angels and to men.
10
We are foolish because of Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are distinguished, but we are dishonored.
11
To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and wander homeless.
12
And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;
13
being defamed, we entreat. We have become as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.
2 Corinthians 11:23-28
23
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I excel them: in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.
24
From the Jews five times I received forty stripes minus one.
25
Three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26
in journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of my own countrymen, in perils of the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
27
in hardship and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness;
28
besides the other things, that come upon me daily: the care of each of the churches.
2 Timothy 3:10-12
10
But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance,
11
persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.
12
Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.