- For just as the sufferings of Christ are abundant for us, so also our consolation is abundant through Christ.
- I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.
- I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death.
- And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.
- Banish anxiety from your mind, and put away pain from your body; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
- Surely he has borne our infirmities
and carried our diseases;
yet we accounted him stricken,
struck down by God, and afflicted.
The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our ancestors; may he not leave us or abandon us.