As they left the council, they rejoiced that they were considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.
2 Corinthians 7:4 - New Revised Standard Version I often boast about you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with consolation; I am overjoyed in all our affliction. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I have great boldness and free and fearless confidence and cheerful courage toward you; my pride in you is great. I am filled [brimful] with the comfort [of it]; with all our tribulation and in spite of it, [I am filled with comfort] I am overflowing with joy. American Standard Version (1901) Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying on your behalf: I am filled with comfort, I overflow with joy in all our affliction. Common English Bible I have every confidence in you. I’m terribly proud of you. I’m filled with encouragement. I’m overwhelmed with happiness while in the middle of our problems. Catholic Public Domain Version Great is my confidence in you. Great is my glorying over you. I have been filled with consolation. I have a superabundant joy throughout all our tribulation. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Great is my confidence for you, great is my glorying for you. I am filled with comfort: I exceedingly abound with joy in all our tribulation. |
As they left the council, they rejoiced that they were considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.
And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that has been given you in Christ Jesus,
as you have already understood us in part—that on the day of the Lord Jesus we are your boast even as you are our boast.
who consoles us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to console those who are in any affliction with the consolation with which we ourselves are consoled by God.
Now, even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be ashamed of it.
To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that! But whatever anyone dares to boast of—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast of that.
But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads in every place the fragrance that comes from knowing him.
For if I have been somewhat boastful about you to him, I was not disgraced; but just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved true as well.
Therefore openly before the churches, show them the proof of your love and of our reason for boasting about you.
and most of the brothers and sisters, having been made confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, dare to speak the word with greater boldness and without fear.
It is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be put to shame in any way, but that by my speaking with all boldness, Christ will be exalted now as always in my body, whether by life or by death.
so that I may share abundantly in your boasting in Christ Jesus when I come to you again.
But even if I am being poured out as a libation over the sacrifice and the offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you—
I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.
For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?
but though we had already suffered and been shamefully mistreated at Philippi, as you know, we had courage in our God to declare to you the gospel of God in spite of great opposition.
Therefore we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith during all your persecutions and the afflictions that you are enduring.
I have indeed received much joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, my brother.
My brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of any kind, consider it nothing but joy,