But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all …

Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

Now I want you to know, brothers, that my circumstances have actually served to advance the gospel.

As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.

And most of the brothers, confident in the Lord by my chains, now dare more greatly to speak the word without fear.

because I know that through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, my distress will turn out for my deliverance.

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

since you are encountering the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.

Do everything without complaining or arguing,

being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully

so that none of you would be shaken by these trials. For you know that we are destined for this.

Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope.

For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of …

After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in …

Therefore encourage one another with these words.

All this is clear evidence of God’s righteous judgment. And so you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.

and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is …

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,

encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.

Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

if we endure, we will also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He will also deny us;

my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

Indeed, all who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.