Are they Christ's servants? (I speak being light-headed) I above; in toils more abundant, in blows more excessively, in watchings more abundantly, in deaths often.

And having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, Why drivest thou me out?

We foolish for Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we weak, and ye strong; ye honourable, and we dishonoured

According to my anxious expectation, and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all freedom of speech, as always, and now shall Christ be Magnified in my body, whether by life, whether by death.

To know him, and the power of his rising up, and the mutual participation of his sufferings, being rendered conformable to his death;

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill again the necessities of the pressures of Christ in my flesh for his body, which is the church.

So

And, behold, a man was in Jerusalem, the name to him Simeon; and this man just and cautious, waiting the consolation of Israel : and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

If therefore any consolation in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any mutual participation of the Spirit, if any compassions and mercies,

And our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, also our Father, having loved us, and given us eternal consolation and good hope in grace,

General references

In the multitude of my thoughts in my midst thy consolations will delight my soul.

Happy they suffering: for they shall be comforted.