Always be joyful,
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, and faithful in prayer.
Always rejoice in the Lord. I’ll say it again: Rejoice!
Rejoice and be glad, because you have a great reward in heaven. You’re being treated just the way people treated the prophets who lived long ago.
We’re often distressed, but we’re always full of joy. We’re poor, but we make many people rich. We own nothing, but we never lack anything.
But don’t be glad because the evil spirits obey you; instead, be glad that your names are written in heaven.”
“Sir,” they said, “give us this bread all the time.”
