Trust the Lord and wait for his help.\par Don’t be upset\par when bad people succeed.\par Don’t be upset\par when bad people make evil plans\par and their plans succeed.\par
Revelation 2:3 - Easy To Read Version You continue to try without quitting. You endured \{troubles\} for my name. And you have not become tired of doing this. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I know you are enduring patiently and are bearing up for My name's sake, and you have not fainted or become exhausted or grown weary. American Standard Version (1901) and thou hast patience and didst bear for my name’s sake, and hast not grown weary. Common English Bible You have shown endurance and put up with a lot for my name’s sake, and you haven’t gotten tired. Catholic Public Domain Version And you have patient endurance for the sake of my name, and you have not fallen away. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thou hast patience, and hast endured for my name, and hast not fainted. |
Trust the Lord and wait for his help.\par Don’t be upset\par when bad people succeed.\par Don’t be upset\par when bad people make evil plans\par and their plans succeed.\par
I sinned against the Lord.\par So he was angry at me.\par But he will argue my case for me in court.\par He will do the things that are right for me.\par Then he will bring me out into the light.\par And I will see that he is right.\par
There was a man from Cyrene walking into the city. The man was Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus. Simon was walking into the city from the fields. The soldiers forced Simon to carry the cross for Jesus.
If a person will not carry the cross (suffering) that is given to him when he follows me, then that person cannot be my follower.
Then Jesus taught the followers that they should always pray and never lose hope. Jesus used this story to teach them:
You will save yourselves by continuing strong in your faith through all these things.
Simon {\cf2\super [88]} answered, “Master, we worked hard all night trying to catch fish, but we caught nothing. But you say I should put the nets into the water; so I will.”
And what is the seed that fell on the good ground? That is like the people that hear God’s teaching with a good, honest heart. They obey God’s teaching and patiently make good fruit.
People will do all this to you because of me. They don’t know the One who sent me.
Be happy because you have hope. Be patient when you have troubles. Pray all the time.
Say hello to Tryphaena and Tryphosa. Those women work very hard for the Lord. Say hello to my dear friend Persis. She has also worked very hard for the Lord.
Some people live for God’s glory, for honor, and for life that cannot be destroyed. Those people live for those things by always continuing to do good. God will give life forever to those people.
But we are hoping for something that we don’t have yet. We are waiting for it patiently.
Love patiently accepts all things. Love always trusts, always hopes, and always continues strong.
to follow the leading of people like these, and any other person that works and serves with them.
We limit our boasting to the work that is ours. We don’t boast in the work other people have done. We hope that your faith will continue to grow. We hope that you will help our work to grow much larger.
Are those people serving Christ? I am serving him more. (I am crazy to talk like this.) I have worked much harder than those people. I have been in prison more often. I have been hurt more in beatings. I have been near death many times.
Our only goal is to please God. We want to please him when we are living here \{in our body\} or there \{with the Lord\}.
We are beaten and thrown into prison. People become upset and fight us. We work hard, and sometimes we get no sleep or food.
Help each other with your troubles. When you do this, you truly obey the law of Christ.
We must not become tired of doing good. We will receive our harvest \{of eternal life\} at the right time. We must not give up!
You offer those people the teaching that gives life. So I can be happy when Christ comes again. I can be happy because my work was not wasted. I ran in the race and won.
And because you serve faithfully with me, my friend, I ask you to help these women do this. These women served with me in telling people the Good News. {\cf2\super [21]} They served together with Clement and the other people who worked with me. Their names are written in the book of life. {\cf2\super [22]}
that God will strengthen you with his\par own great power;\par that God will strengthen you,\par so that you will be patient\par and not quit when troubles come.\par
When we pray to God our Father we always thank him for the things you have done because of your faith. And we thank him for the work you have done because of your love. And we thank him that you continue to be strong because of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Brothers and sisters, I know that you remember how hard we worked. We worked night and day. We did not want to burden you \{by making you pay us\} while we did the work of telling God’s Good News to you.
Now brothers and sisters, we ask you to respect those people who work hard with you—those who lead you in the Lord and teach you.
We pray that the Lord will lead your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s patience.
And when we ate another person’s food, we always paid for it. We worked and worked so that we would not be trouble to any of you. We worked night and day.
We hope in the living God. He is the Savior of all people. And in a special way, he is the Savior of all those people who believe in him. This is why we work and struggle.
The elders {\cf2\super [27]} who lead the church in a good way should receive double honor. This is especially true for those elders who do the work of counseling and teaching.
You must be patient. After you have done what God wants, then you will get the things that he promised you.
We have those many people \{of faith\} around us. Their lives tell us what faith means. So we should be like them. We too should run the race that is before us and never stop trying. We should take away \{from our lives\} anything that would stop us. And we should take away the sin that so easily catches us.
So we should go to Jesus outside the camp. We should accept the same shame that Jesus had.
God is fair. God will remember all the work you have done. And God will remember that you showed your love to him by helping his people. And God will remember that you continue to help his people.
You have had enough time that by now you should be teachers. But you need some person to teach you again the first lessons of God’s teaching. You still need the teaching that is like milk. You are not ready for solid food.
Abraham waited patiently for this to happen. And later Abraham received what God promised.
and to your knowledge add self-control; and to your self-control add patience; and to your patience add service for God;
I am John, and I am your brother \{in Christ\}. We are together in Jesus, and we share these things: suffering, the kingdom, and patient endurance. I was on the island of Patmos {\cf2\super [7]} because I was faithful to God’s message {\cf2\super [8]} and to the truth of Jesus.
You followed my command to endure patiently. So I will keep you from the time of trouble that will come to the whole world. This trouble will test the people who live on the earth.