Suffering...

"More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us." 

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Philippians 4:13

“In [Christ] who is the source of my strength I have strength for everything.”














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2 Cor 12:9

“[The Lord] said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’”

Rom 8:37-39

“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”















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Letter of Paul to the Romans

“If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also give us all things with him?” 

(Rom 8:31-32, RSV)

Letter of Paul to the Corinthians

“Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one — I am talking like a madman — with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. Five times I have received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I have been beaten with rods; once I was stoned. Three times I have been shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brethren; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure upon me of my anxiety for all the churches.”

(2 Corinthians 11:23-28, RSVCE)