1Cr 15: 31 Daily am I dying. By this boast of yours, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus, our Lord, [CLNT]
1Pet 4: 16-17 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
Psalm 119: 71, 75 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes….[75] I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
Rom 5: 3-4 Yet not only so, but we may be glorying also in afflictions, having perceived that affliction is producing endurance, yet endurance testedness, yet testedness expectation. [CLNT]
Rom 8: 17 if so be that we are suffering together, that we should be glorified together also. For I am reckoning that the sufferings of the current era do not deserve the glory about to be revealed for us. [CLNT]
1Pet 2: 19-20 for this is grace, if, because of consciousness of God, anyone is undergoing sorrows, suffering unjustly. For what credit is it if, sinning and being buffeted, you will be enduring it? But if, doing good and suffering, you will be enduring, this is grace with God. [CLNT]
Jhn 15: 20 “If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you;”
1Tim 4: 10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
Acts 5: 41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
Phil 1: 29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
2Cr 4: 10-11 at all times the dying of the Lord Jesus bearing about in the body, that the life also of Jesus in our body may be manifested, 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, [Young’s Literal Translation]
Acts 14: 22 Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
1Pet 4: 12-13 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
Mat 10: 39 “He who is finding his soul will be destroying it, and he who destroys his soul on My account will be finding it.” [CLNT]
Jhn 12: 24-25 "Verily, verily, I am saying to you, If a kernel of grain, falling into the earth, should not be dying, it is remaining alone, yet if it should be dying, it is bringing forth much fruit. He who is fond of his soul is destroying it, and he who is hating his soul in this world, shall be guarding it for life eonian.” [CLNT]
Col 1: 24 I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for you, and am filling up in my flesh, in His stead, the deficiencies of the afflictions of Christ, for His body, which is the ecclesia [CLNT]
2Tim 1: 8, 12 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;……. For which cause I am suffering these things also, but I am not ashamed, for I am aware Whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to guard what is committed to me, for that day.
Jhn 21: 19 Now this He said, signifying by what death he will be glorifying God. And saying this, He is saying to him, "Follow Me!" [CLNT]
2Cr 11: 23 Are they ministers of Christ? I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
Isa 48: 10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.
Rev 2: 10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
1Pet 5: 8-9 Be sober! Watch! For your plaintiff, the Adversary, is walking about as a roaring lion, seeking someone to swallow up; whom withstand, solid in the faith, having perceived the same sufferings being completed in your brotherhood in the world. [CLNT]
Jhn 15:2 every branch in me not bearing fruit, He doth take it away, and every one bearing fruit, He doth cleanse by pruning it, that it may bear more fruit; [Rotherham’s]
1Ths 3: 3-4 No one is to be swayed by these afflictions, for you yourselves are aware that we are located for this. For even when we were with you, we predicted to you that "we are about to be afflicted," according as it came to be also, and you are aware. [CLNT]
Rev 1: 9 I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
2Ths 1: 4-5 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
Mat 24: 9 “Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.”
1Ths 1: 6 And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in much affliction with joy of holy spirit, [CLNT]
2Tim 4: 5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
Mark 13: 19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.
Rom 12: 10-13 Let us have fond affection for one another with brotherly fondness, in honor deeming one another first, in diligence not slothful, fervent in spirit, slaving for the Lord, rejoicing in expectation, enduring affliction, persevering in prayer, [CLNT]
Psa 34: 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
2Cr 4:7-10 ...we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are
— hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed...
— perplexed, but not in despair
— persecuted, but not forsaken;
— struck down, but not destroyed
— always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
Jam 1: 2-3 Reckon it nothing but joy, my brethren, whenever you find yourselves hedged in by various trials. Be assured that the testing of your faith leads to power of endurance. [Weymouth N.T.]
2Cr 4: 17 for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us – [YLT]
Psa 119: 71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Job 23: 10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
1Pet 1: 6-7 Rejoice triumphantly in the prospect of this, even if now, for a short time, you are compelled to sorrow amid various trials. The sorrow comes in order that the testing of your faith--being more precious than that of gold, which perishes and yet is proved by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honour at the reappearing of Jesus Christ. [Weymouth NT]
Mrk 1: 12-13 And straightway the spirit is ejecting Him into the wilderness. And He was in the wilderness forty days, undergoing trial by Satan, and was with the wild beasts. And messengers waited on Him. [CLNT]
Mat 4: 1-3 Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the spirit to be tried by the Adversary. [CLNT]
Acts 9: 15-16 But the Lord said unto him, “Go thy way: for he [Paul] is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name's sake.”
Psa 66:10-12 For you, 0 God, have proved us; You have refined us as silver is refined. You brought us into the net; You laid affliction on our backs. You have caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but You brought us out to rich fulfillment. [NKJV]
Rom 8: 35-37 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Col 2: 20-22 If, then, you died together with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as living in the world, are you subject to decrees: [CLNT]
2Cr 1:5 Because, even as the sufferings of the Christ overflow unto us, so, through the Christ, overfloweth, our encouragement also. [Rotherham’s]
1Jhn 4: 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. [See Isaiah 53 below]
1Pet 4: 1 Christ, then, having suffered for our sakes in flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same thought, for he who is suffering in flesh has ceased his sins, [CLNT]
Rom 6:11 Likewise count yourselves also to be truly dead to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1Pet 2: 4-5 Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. [NKJV]
Jam 5: 10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
1Pet 3: 14, 17 Yet if you may be suffering also because of righteousness, happy are you. Now you may not be afraid with their fear, nor yet be disturbed, .... 17 For it is better to be suffering for doing good, if the will of God may be willing, than for doing evil, [CLNT]
1Jhn 3: 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Jhn 16: 33 "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."
Psa 119: 50 My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life. [NIV]
Jam 5: 13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
1Jhn 5: 4-5 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
Rev 3: 5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
Rev 3: 12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Rev 3: 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Rev 21: 7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
Note from Ray: "Overcomes" WHAT? Overcomes the sins of the FLESH, the sins of the CHURCH, and the sins of the whole WORLD. We must overcome just "AS" Jesus overcame.
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Isaiah 53
[1] Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
[2] For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
[3] He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
[4] Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
[5] But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
[6] All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
[7] He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
[8] He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
[9] And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
[10] Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
[11] He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
[12] Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
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