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Romans 12:12

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

Rejoicing in your hope; steadfast under persecution; persevering in prayer;

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Be glad and rejoice, because your reward in Heaven will be great; for so men persecuted the Prophets who lived before you.

Yet do not rejoice in the fact that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names have been enrolled in Heaven."

By your endurance you shall win yourselves Life.

But by that in the good ground are meant those who, having heard the Message, keep it in the good, rich soil of their hearts, and patiently yield a return.

They all united in devoting themselves to Prayer, and so did some women, and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

So Peter was kept in prison, but meanwhile the prayers of the Church were being earnestly offered to God on his behalf.

They devoted themselves to the teaching of the Apostles and to the Common Life of the Church, to the Breaking of the Bread and to the Prayers.

While we, for our part, will devote ourselves to Prayer, and to the delivery of the Message."

May God, who inspires our hope, grant you perfect happiness and peace in your faith, till you are filled with this hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Whatever was written in the Scriptures in days gone by was written for our instruction, so that, through patient endurance, and through the encouragement drawn from the Scriptures, we might hold fast to our hope.

To those who, by perseverance in doing good, aim at glory, honor, and all that is imperishable, he will give Immortal Life;

But when we hope for what is not before our eyes, then we wait for it with patience.

Meanwhile Faith, Hope, and Love endure-these three, but the greatest of these is Love.

About this I three times entreated the Lord, praying that it might leave me.

In conclusion, my Brothers, all joy be yours in your union with the Lord. To repeat what I have already written does not weary me, and is the safe course for you.

All joy be yours at all times in your union with the Lord. Again I repeat--All joy be yours.

You will be made strong at all points with a strength worthy of the power manifested in his Glory--strong to endure with patience, and even with gladness, whatever may befall you;

To whom it was his pleasure to make known the surpassing glory of that hidden Truth when proclaimed among the Gentiles--'Christ among you! Your Hope of glory!'

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, sends you his greeting. He is a servant of Christ Jesus, and is always most earnest in your behalf in his prayers, praying that you may stand firm, with a matured faith and with a sure conviction of all that is in accordance with God's will.

Devote yourselves to prayer. Give your whole mind to it, and also offer thanksgiving;

Recalling continually before our God and Father the efforts that have resulted from your faith, the toil prompted by your love, and the patient endurance sustained by your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

But let us, who belong to the Day, control ourselves, and put on faith and love as a breast plate, and the hope of Salvation as a helmet.

So much is this the case that we ourselves speak with pride, before the Churches of God, of the patience and faith which you have shown, in spite of all the persecutions and troubles that you are enduring.

May the Lord bring you to the love of God, and to the patience of the Christ.

But do you, Servant of God, avoid all this. Aim at righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.

But you, Timothy, were a close observer of my teaching, my conduct, my purposes, my faith, my forbearance, my love, and my patient endurance,

while we are awaiting our Blessed Hope--the Appearing in glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus.

that, having been pronounced righteous through his loving-kindness, we might enter on our inheritance with the hope of Immortal Life.

Call to mind those early days in which, after you had received the Light, you patiently underwent a long and painful conflict.

You still have need of patient endurance, in order that, when you have done God's will, you may obtain the fulfillment of his promise.

Seeing, therefore, that there is on every side of us such a throng of witnesses, let us also lay aside everything that hinders us, and the sin that clings about us, and run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,

the faithfulness of Christ was that of a Son set over the House of God. And we are his House--if only we retain, unshaken to the end, the courage and confidence inspired by our hope.

Jesus, in the days of his earthly life, offered prayers and supplications, with earnest cries and with tears, to him who was able to save him from death; and he was heard because of his devout submission.

Then you will not show yourselves slow to learn, but you will copy those who, through faith and patience, are now entering upon the enjoyment of God's promises.

And so, after patiently waiting, Abraham obtained the fulfillment of God's promise.

Be patient, then, Brothers, till the Coming of the Lord. Even the farmer has to wait for the precious fruit of the earth, watching over it patiently, till it has had the spring and summer rains.

No, the more you share the sufferings of the Christ, the more may you rejoice, that, when the time comes for the manifestation of his Glory, you may rejoice and exult.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore exercise self-restraint and be calm, that you may be able to pray.

knowledge by self-control, self-control by endurance, endurance by piety,

'Whoever is destined for captivity goes into captivity.' Whoever shall kill with the sword must inevitably be killed with the sword. (Here there is need for endurance and faith on the part of Christ's People.)




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