The wicked person desires a stronghold, ¹  but the righteous root ²  endures. ³ 

Under three things the earth trembles, ¹  and under four things it cannot bear up:

Trust in the Lord from this time forward, ¹  even in Yah, the Lord, an enduring protector! ² 

Blessed is the one who waits and attains to the 1,335 days.

But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you!

But I tell you, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom ¹  on the day of judgment than for you!”

But first he must ¹  suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.” ¹ 

But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with endurance. ¹ 

If what someone has built survives, he will receive a reward.

And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.

everything that may stand the fire, you are to pass through the fire, ¹  and it will be ceremonially clean, but it must still be purified with the water of purification. Anything that cannot withstand the fire you must pass through the water.

Please forgive the sin of your servant, for the Lord will certainly establish the house of my lord, because my lord fights the battles of the Lord. May no evil be found in you all your days!

I said, ¹  “Lord, you know how I suffer. ²  Take thought of me and care for me. Pay back for me those who have been persecuting me. Do not be so patient with them that you allow them to kill me. Be mindful of how I have put up with their insults for your sake.

“Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I have spoken in my zeal and in my anger, because you have endured the insults of the nations.

In the days of those kings the God of heaven will raise up an everlasting kingdom that will not be destroyed and a kingdom that will not be left to another people. It will break in pieces and bring about the demise of all these kingdoms. But it will stand forever.

Amaziah the priest of Bethel ¹  sent this message ²  to King Jeroboam of Israel: “Amos is conspiring against you in the very heart of the kingdom of Israel! ³  The land cannot endure all his prophecies. ⁴