If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.
For this reason I endure all things for the sake of the elect, so that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Chri
All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is extending to more and more people may cause thanksgiving to over
who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have rece
And it is God who has prepared us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a pledge of what is to come.
because I know that through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, my distress will turn out for
So I ask you not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.
And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpo
And for the sake of your souls, I will most gladly spend my money and myself. If I love you more, will you love me less?
Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may sh
Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,
Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
But when our time there had ended, we set out on our journey. All the disciples, with their wives and children, accompan