Or, the riches of his kindness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise, - not knowing that, the kindness of God, unto repentance, is leading thee?

And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance;

Therefore God delivered them to the suffering of ignominy: for also their females changed the natural use into that against generation:

suffering and distress, on every soul of man who does evil, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and fellowheirs with Christ; if indeed we are suffering with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

For we know that the whole creation is together groaning and suffering the pains of labor, up to this time;

Present suffering, I hold, is a mere nothing compared to the glory that we are to have revealed.

Rejoice in hope, endure in suffering, persist in prayer.

but wrath and fury, crushing suffering and awful anguish, to the self-willed who are always resisting the right and yielding to the wrong,

Who can separate us from Christ's love? Can suffering or misfortune or persecution or hunger or destitution or danger or the sword?

No, [suffering any one of these things is not proof that Christ does not love us], for in spite of all these things we have a decisive victory [over life's difficulties] through [the care shown us by] Christ who loved us.

that you may receive her in the Lord [with love and hospitality], as God’s people ought to receive one another. And that you may help her in whatever matter she may require assistance from you, for she has been a helper of many, including myself.

and in the same way also the men turned away from the natural function of the woman and were consumed with their desire toward one another, men with men committing shameful acts and in return receiving in their own bodies the inevitable and appropriate penalty for their wrongdoing.

As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.

And the God of peace will be crushing Satan under your feet before long. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Or are ye ignorant, brethren, - for unto them that understand the law am I speaking, that, the law, hath lordship over a men as long as he liveth?

According as it is written - For thy sake, are we being put to death all the day long, we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter. -

Whereas, regarding Israel, he saith - All day long, have I stretched forth my hands unto a people unyielding and contradicting.

which He promised long ago through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures—

For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Now to Him who has power to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation about Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent for long ages