Thematic Bible: For Christ's sake some trials believers may be called upon to endure


Thematic Bible



And Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they mock at us, and despise us, and say, 'What is this thing that ye are doing? against the king are ye rebelling?'

and saith before his brethren and the force of Samaria, yea, he saith, 'What are the weak Jews doing? are they left to themselves? do they sacrifice? do they complete in a day? do they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish? -- and they burnt!'

Small I am, and despised, Thy precepts I have not forgotten.

and it hath come to pass, the ark of Jehovah hath come in to the city of David, and Michal daughter of Saul, hath looked through the window, and seeth king David moving and dancing before Jehovah, and despiseth him in her heart.

A laughter to his friend I am: 'He calleth to God, and He answereth him,' A laughter is the perfect righteous one.

and the Philistine looketh attentively, and seeth David, and despiseth him, for he was a youth, and ruddy, with a fair appearance.

and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless --




Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake --

greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward;


partly both with reproaches and tribulations being made spectacles, and partly having become partners of those so living,

now, then, may we go forth unto him without the camp, his reproach bearing;



for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,

wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;