The godly ¹  face many dangers, ²  but the Lord saves ³  them ⁴  from each one of them.

so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body – for the sake of his body, the church – what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.

except ¹  that the Holy Spirit warns ²  me in town after town ³  that ⁴  imprisonment ⁵  and persecutions ⁶  are waiting for me.

then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants – great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses.

But as God’s servants, ¹  we have commended ourselves in every way, ²  with great endurance, in persecutions, ³  in difficulties, in distresses,

A song of ascents. ²  O Lord, for David’s sake remember all his strenuous effort, ³ 

and rescued him from all his troubles, and granted him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made ¹  him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.

As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.

For he had healed many, so that all who were afflicted with diseases pressed toward him in order to touch him.

At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and afflictions, and at other times you came to share with others who were treated in that way.

At that very time ¹  Jesus ²  cured many people of diseases, sicknesses, ³  and evil spirits, and granted ⁴  sight to many who were blind.

You, however, be self-controlled ¹  in all things, endure hardship, do an evangelist’s work, fulfill your ministry.

Remove ¹  your hand ²  far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror. ³ 

He delivers the afflicted by ¹  their ²  afflictions, he reveals himself to them ³  by their suffering.

א (Alef) ¹  I am the man ²  who has experienced ³  affliction from the rod ⁴  of his wrath.

When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, ¹  as they acknowledge their pain ²  and spread out their hands toward this temple,

as well as the persecutions and sufferings ¹  that happened to me in Antioch, ²  in Iconium, and in Lystra. ³  I endured these persecutions and the Lord delivered me from them all.

I ¹  have refused ²  to touch such things; ³  they are like loathsome food to me. ⁴ 

If you say, ‘How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!’ ¹