2 Corinthians 7:4
I have absolute confidence in you, I am indeed proud of you, you are a perfect comfort to me, I am overflowing with delight, for all the trouble I have to bear.
2 Corinthians 1:4
who comforts me in all my distress, so that I am able to comfort people who are in any distress by the comfort with which I myself am comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 3:12
Such being my hope then, I am quite frank and open ??13 not like Moses, who used to hang a veil over his face to keep the children of Israel from gazing at the last rays of a fading glory.
Philippians 2:17
Even if my life-blood has to be poured as a libation on the sacred sacrifice of faith you are offering to God, I rejoice, I congratulate you all ??18 and you in turn must rejoice and congratulate me.
Colossians 1:24
I am suffering now on your behalf, but I rejoice in that; I would make up the full sum of all that Christ has to suffer in my person on behalf of the church, his Body;
Acts 5:41
The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy of suffering dishonour for the sake of the Name;
Romans 5:3
Not only so, but we triumph even in our troubles, knowing that trouble produces endurance,
1 Corinthians 1:4
I always thank my God for the grace of God that has been bestowed on you in Christ Jesus;
2 Corinthians 1:14
as you have partly understood the meaning of my life, namely that I am your source of pride (as you are mine) on the Day of our Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians 2:14
Wherever I go, thank God, he makes my life a constant pageant of triumph in Christ, diffusing the perfume of his knowledge everywhere by me.
2 Corinthians 6:10-11
grieved but always glad, a 'pauper', but the means of wealth to many, without a penny but possessed of all.
2 Corinthians 7:6-7
But the God who comforts the dejected comforted me by the arrival of Titus.
2 Corinthians 8:24
So let them have proof of how you can love, and of my reasons for being proud of you; it will be a proof read by the churches.
2 Corinthians 9:2-4
I know how willing you are, I am proud of it, I have boasted of you to the Macedonians: "Achaia," I tell them, "was all ready last year." And your zeal has been a stimulus to the majority of them.
2 Corinthians 10:1-2
I appeal to you myself by the gentleness and consideration of Christ ??the Paul who is 'humble enough to your face when he is with you, but outspoken enough when he gets away from you.'
2 Corinthians 11:21
I am quite ashamed to say I was not equal to that sort of thing! But let them vaunt as they please, I am equal to them (mind, this is the role of a fool!).
Ephesians 6:19-20
and on my behalf also, that I may be allowed to speak and open my lips in order to expound fully and freely that open secret of the gospel
1 Thessalonians 2:2
At Philippi, as you know, we had been ill-treated and insulted, but we took courage and confidence in our God to tell you the gospel of God in spite of all the strain.
1 Thessalonians 2:19
For who is our hope, our joy, our crown of pride (who but you?) in the presence of our Lord Jesus on his arrival?
1 Thessalonians 3:7-9
then, amid all my own distress and trouble, I was cheered ??this faith of yours encouraged me.
James 1:2
Greet it as pure joy, my brothers, when you come across any sort of trial,