- 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.
For, while physical training is of some value, godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?Next verse!With image