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- Rom 12:12 : 12 rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer;
- Ps 34:19 : 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous; But Jehovah delivereth him out of them all.
- Job 9:27-28 : 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer; 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
- Ps 119:28 : 28 My soul melteth for heaviness: Strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
- Acts 14:22 : 22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.
- 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 For, I think, {G3754} God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men. 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor. 11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; 12 and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; 13 being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.
- Isa 12:2-3 : 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Jehovah, [even] Jehovah, is my strength and song; and he is become my salvation. 3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
- 1 Pet 4:12-13 : 12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you: 13 but insomuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory also ye may rejoice with exceeding joy.
- 1 Pet 1:7-8 : 7 that the proof of your faith, [being] more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ: 8 whom not having seen ye love; on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
- 2 Cor 4:7-9 : 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves; 8 [ we are] pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair; 9 pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed; 10 always bearing about in the body the dying of {G2962} Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
- 2 Cor 4:17 : 17 For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us {G2596} more and {G5236} more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
- 2 Cor 6:10 : 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and [yet] possessing all things.
- 2 Cor 11:23-27 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; 26 [ in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren; 27 [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
- 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for [my] power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
- Heb 11:35-38 : 35 Women received their dead by a resurrection: and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection: 36 and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: 37 they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in {G122} goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated 38 (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves, and the holes of the earth.
- Heb 12:7-9 : 7 It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is there whom [his] father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 9 Furthermore, {G3303} we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened [us] as seemed good to them; but he for [our] profit, that [we] may be partakers of his holiness. 11 {G1161} {G3303} All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them that have been exercised thereby, {G1223} [even the fruit] of righteousness.
- Ps 119:75 : 75 I know, O Jehovah, that thy judgments are righteous, And that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.
- Lam 3:32-33 : 32 For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. 33 For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
- Ps 69:20 : 20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- 1 Pet 1:7-93 verses85%
7that the proof of your faith, [being] more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
8whom not having seen ye love; on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
9receiving the end of your faith, [even] the salvation of [your] souls.
- 1 Pet 4:12-132 verses81%
- 2 Thess 1:4-63 verses78%
4so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;
5[None which is] a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
6if so be that it is righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,
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3And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;
- 1 Pet 5:9-102 verses76%
9whom withstand stedfast in your faith, knowing that the same sufferings are accomplished in your brethren who are in the world.
10And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, {G2424} after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself {G5209} perfect, establish, strengthen you.
- 2 Cor 1:4-74 verses76%
4who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
5For as the sufferings of Christ abound unto us, even so our comfort also aboundeth through Christ.
6But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:
7and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.
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- Heb 10:32-343 verses73%
32But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;
33partly, being made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, becoming partakers with them that were so used.
34For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took {G3326} joyfully the spoiling of your possessions, knowing that ye have for yourselves {G1722} {G3772} a better possession and an abiding one.
- 1 Pet 1:21-222 verses73%
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11For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the matter.
- 1 Thess 3:4-52 verses72%
4For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know.
5For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.
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6and in [your] knowledge self-control; and in [your] self-control patience; and in [your] patience godliness;
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12rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer;