Romans 12:12

Living In Love

¹¹ Do not lag in zeal, be enthusiastic in spirit, serve the Lord. ¹² Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer. ¹³ Contribute to the needs of the saints, pursue hospitality.

In Time of Trouble

Patient in Tribulation

Time of Trouble

Christ

Hebrews 10:36

For you need endurance in order to do God's will and so receive what is promised.

Acts 1:14

All these continued together in prayer with one mind, together with the women, along with Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

Psalm 62:8

Trust in him at all times, you people! Pour out your hearts before him! God is our shelter! (Selah)

Romans 15:13

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in him, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 13:13

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Genesis 32:24-26

So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

Job 27:8-10

For what hope does the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Psalm 16:9-11

So my heart rejoices and I am happy; My life is safe.

Psalm 37:7

Wait patiently for the Lord! Wait confidently for him! Do not fret over the apparent success of a sinner, a man who carries out wicked schemes!

Psalm 40:1

For the music director; By David, a psalm. I relied completely on the Lord, and he turned toward me and heard my cry for help.

Psalm 55:16-17

As for me, I will call out to God, and the Lord will deliver me.

Psalm 71:20-23

Though you have allowed me to experience much trouble and distress, revive me once again! Bring me up once again from the depths of the earth!

Psalm 73:24-26

You guide me by your wise advice, and then you will lead me to a position of honor.

Psalm 109:4

They repay my love with accusations, but I continue to pray.

Proverbs 10:28

The hope of the righteous is joy, but the expectation of the wicked will remain unfulfilled.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked will be thrown down in his trouble, but the righteous have refuge even in the threat of death.

Jeremiah 29:12-13

When you call out to me and come to me in prayer, I will hear your prayers.

Lamentations 3:24-26

"My portion is the Lord," I have said to myself, so I will put my hope in him.

Daniel 9:18-19

Listen attentively, my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins and the city called by your name. For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you, but because your compassion is abundant.

Habakkuk 3:17-18

When the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines; when the olive trees do not produce, and the fields yield no crops; when the sheep disappear from the pen, and there are no cattle in the stalls,

Matthew 5:12

Rejoice and be glad because your reward is great in heaven, for they persecuted the prophets before you in the same way.

Luke 8:15

But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing the word, cling to it with an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance.

Luke 10:20

Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names stand written in heaven."

Luke 11:5-13

Then he said to them, "Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

Luke 18:1-43

Then Jesus told them a parable to show them they should always pray and not lose heart.

Luke 21:19

By your endurance you will gain your lives.

Acts 2:42

They were devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

Acts 6:4

But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word."

Acts 12:5

So Peter was kept in prison, but those in the church were earnestly praying to God for him.

Romans 2:7

eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality,

Romans 5:2-4

through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God's glory.

Romans 8:25

But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance.

Romans 15:4

For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.

2 Corinthians 12:8

I asked the Lord three times about this, that it would depart from me.

Ephesians 6:18-19

With every prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit, and to this end be alert, with all perseverance and requests for all the saints.

Philippians 3:1

Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! To write this again is no trouble to me, and it is a safeguard for you.

Philippians 4:4

Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice!

Philippians 4:6-7

Do not be anxious about anything. Instead, in every situation, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, tell your requests to God.

Colossians 1:11

being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfully

Colossians 1:27

God wanted to make known to them the glorious riches of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Colossians 4:2

Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you and a slave of Christ, greets you. He is always struggling in prayer on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 1:3

because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:8

But since we are of the day, we must stay sober by putting on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet our hope for salvation.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-17

Always rejoice,

2 Thessalonians 1:4

As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.

2 Thessalonians 2:16-17

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,

2 Thessalonians 3:5

Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and the endurance of Christ.

1 Timothy 6:11

But you, as a person dedicated to God, keep away from all that. Instead pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.

2 Timothy 3:10

You, however, have followed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

Titus 2:13

as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Titus 3:7

And so, since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life."

Hebrews 3:6

But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.

Hebrews 5:7

During his earthly life Christ offered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.

Hebrews 6:12

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.

Hebrews 6:15

And so by persevering, Abraham inherited the promise.

Hebrews 6:17-19

In the same way God wanted to demonstrate more clearly to the heirs of the promise that his purpose was unchangeable, and so he intervened with an oath,

Hebrews 10:32

But remember the former days when you endured a harsh conflict of suffering after you were enlightened.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,

James 1:3-4

because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

James 5:7

So be patient, brothers and sisters, until the Lord's return. Think of how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient for it until it receives the early and late rains.

James 5:10-11

As an example of suffering and patience, brothers and sisters, take the prophets who spoke in the Lord's name.

James 5:15-16

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick and the Lord will raise him up -- and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

1 Peter 1:3-8

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 2:19-20

For this finds God's favor, if because of conscience toward God someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly.

1 Peter 4:7

For the culmination of all things is near. So be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of prayer.

1 Peter 4:13

But rejoice in the degree that you have shared in the sufferings of Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may also rejoice and be glad.

2 Peter 1:6

to knowledge, self-control; to self-control, perseverance; to perseverance, godliness;

1 John 3:1-3

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God's children -- and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

1 John 5:14-15

And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

Revelation 13:10

If anyone is meant for captivity, into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed by the sword, then by the sword he must be killed. This requires steadfast endurance and faith from the saints.