Blessed is the one who endures testing, because after being approved, that person will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love ʜɪᴍ.
For Christ’s sake, I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in troubles, in persecutions, and in tight squeezes. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
We call them blessed who endured. Y’all have heard of the perseverance of Job, and y’all have seen what the Lord brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
“Y’all listen to me, those who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Y’all must not fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho facing him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him and bowed to the ground before him.
maintaining such an excellent way of life among the ethnic groups that, though they accuse y’all of being evildoers, they may see y’all’s excellent deeds and glorify God in the day of visitation.
But when they opposed him and vilified him, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Y’all’s blood be on your* own heads! I am innocent. From now on, I will go to the ethnic groups!”
The Spirit of YHWH will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of YHWH.
He has swallowed up death forever! Lord YHWH will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for YHWH has spoken it.