Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in insults, in persecutions, in distresses for the Messiah's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Master Yahshua the Messiah, in the sight of our Elohim and Father;
For ye, brethren, became followers of the assemblies of Elohim which in Judaea are in the Messiah Yahshua: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of Yahweh; that Yahweh is full of pity, and of tender mercy.