Romans 12:12

Weymouth NT

full of joyful hope, patient under persecution, earnest and persistent in prayer.

Cross References

Matthew 5:12

Be joyful and triumphant, because your reward is great in the Heavens; for so were the Prophets before you persecuted.«

Luke 10:20

Nevertheless rejoice not at this, that the spirits submit to you; but rejoice that your names are registered in Heaven.«

Luke 21:19

By your patient endurance you will purchase your lives.

Luke 8:15

But as for that in the good ground, it means those who, having listened to the Message with open minds and in a right spirit, hold it fast, and patiently yield a return.

Acts 1:14

All of these with one mind continued earnest in prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and His brothers.

Acts 12:5

So Peter was kept in prison; but long and fervent prayer was offered to God by the Church on his behalf.

Acts 2:42

and they were constant in listening to the teaching of the Apostles and in their attendance at the Communion, that is, the Breaking of the Bread, and at prayer.

Acts 6:4

But, as for us, we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the delivery of the Message.«

Romans 15:13

May God, the giver of hope, fill you with continual joy and peace because you trust in Him–so that you may have abundant hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:4

For all that was written of old has been written for our instruction, so that we may always have hope through the power of endurance and the encouragement which the Scriptures afford.

Romans 2:7

to those on the one hand who, by lives of persistent right-doing, are striving for glory, honour and immortality, the Life of the Ages;

Romans 8:25

But if we hope for something which we do not see, then we eagerly and patiently wait for it.

1 Corinthians 13:13

And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love–these three; and of these the greatest is Love.

2 Corinthians 12:8

As for this, three times have I besought the Lord to rid me of him;

Philippians 3:1

In conclusion, my brethren, be joyful in the Lord. For me to give you the same warnings as before is not irksome to me, while so far as you are concerned it is a safe precaution.

Philippians 4:4

Always be glad in the Lord: I will repeat it, be glad.

Colossians 1:11

Since His power is so glorious, may you be strengthened with strength of every kind, and be prepared for cheerfully enduring all things with patience and long-suffering;

Colossians 1:27

to whom it was His will to make known how vast a wealth of glory for the Gentile world is implied in this truth–the truth that `Christ is in you, the hope of glory.'

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, sends greetings to you, always wrestling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand firm–Christians of ripe character and of clear conviction as to everything which is God's will.

Colossians 4:2

Be earnest and unwearied in prayer, being on the alert in it and in your giving of thanks.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

For we never fail to remember your works of faith and labours of love and your persistent and unwavering hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father;

1 Thessalonians 5:8

But let us, belonging –as we do– to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

2 Thessalonians 1:4

It so increases that we ourselves make honourable mention of you among the Churches of God because of your patience and faith amid all your persecutions and amid the afflictions which you are enduring.

2 Thessalonians 3:5

And may the Lord guide your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.

1 Timothy 6:11

But you, O man of God, must flee from these things; and strive for uprightness, godliness, good faith, love, fortitude, and a forgiving temper.

2 Timothy 3:10

But you have intimately known my teaching, life, aims, faith, patience, love, resignation,

Titus 2:13

in expectation of the fulfilment of our blessed hope–the Appearing in glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;

Titus 3:7

in order that having been declared righteous through His grace we might become heirs to the Life of the Ages in fulfilment of our hopes.

Hebrews 10:32

But continually recall to mind the days now past, when on being first enlightened you went through a great conflict and many sufferings.

Hebrews 10:36

For you stand in need of patient endurance, so that, as the result of having done the will of God, you may receive the promised blessing.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, surrounded as we are by such a vast cloud of witnesses, let us fling aside every encumbrance and the sin that so readily entangles our feet. And let us run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,

Hebrews 3:6

but Christ was faithful as a Son having authority over God's house, and we are that house, if we hold firm to the End the boldness and the hope which we boast of as ours.

Hebrews 5:7

For Jesus during his earthly life offered up prayers and entreaties, crying aloud and weeping as He pleaded with Him who was able to bring Him in safety out of death, and He was delivered from the terror from which He shrank.

Hebrews 6:12

so that you may not become half-hearted, but be imitators of those who through faith and patient endurance are now heirs to the promises.

Hebrews 6:15

And so, as the result of patient waiting, our forefather obtained what God had promised.

James 5:7

Be patient therefore, brethren, until the Coming of the Lord. Notice how eagerly a farmer waits for a valuable crop! He is patient over it till it has received the early and the later rain.

1 Peter 4:13

On the contrary, in the degree that you share in the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice, so that at the unveiling of His glory you may also rejoice with triumphant gladness.

1 Peter 4:7

But the end of all things is now close at hand: therefore be sober-minded and temperate, so that you may give yourselves to prayer.

2 Peter 1:6

along with knowledge, self-control; along with self-control, power of endurance;

Revelation 13:10

If any one is eager to lead others into captivity, he must himself go into captivity. If any one is bent on killing with the sword, he must himself be killed by the sword. Here is an opportunity for endurance, and for the exercise of faith, on the part of God's people.