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.
I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were once made concerning you, that by them you may fight the excellent battle,
persecutions, and the sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions, and the Lord delivered me from them all.
But if we are afflicted, it is for y’all’s comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for y’all’s comfort, which produces in y’all the patient endurance of the same sufferings that we suffer.
What soldier ever serves at their own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?