Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.

For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,

And when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for a whole year they assembled with the church and taught a great many people. And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

Then Agrippa said to Paul, You almost persuade me to become a Christian.

Therefore I ask that you do not lose heart at my afflictions on your behalf, which is your glory.

of whom the whole family in Heaven and earth is named,

For the Lord Jehovah will help Me; therefore I have not been ashamed. Therefore I have set My face like flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

Do not fear, for you shall not be ashamed; nor be humiliated, for you shall not be put to shame. For you shall forget the shame of your youth, and shall not remember the reproach of your widowhood any more.

according to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep safe what I have committed to Him until that Day.

looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For consider Him who endured such opposition from sinners against Himself, that you not become weary and faint in your souls.

Therefore glorify Jehovah in the light of the fire, the name of the Lord Jehovah of Israel from the seashores.

So they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name.

through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice on the hope of the glory of God.

and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope.

For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake,

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,

But let patience have its perfecting work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.