TSK · 2 Corinthians 7:4

So they left the council rejoicing because they had been considered worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.

Thanksgiving I always thank my God for you because of the grace of God that was given to you in Christ Jesus.

just as also you have partly understood us, that we are your source of pride just as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Therefore, since we have such a hope, we behave with great boldness,

But God, who encourages the downhearted, encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.

because I know your eagerness to help. I keep boasting to the Macedonians about this eagerness of yours, that Achaia has been ready to give since last year, and your zeal to participate has stirred up most of them.

(To my disgrace I must say that we were too weak for that!) But whatever anyone else dares to boast about(I am speaking foolishly), I also dare to boast about the same thing.

My confident hope is that I will in no way be ashamed but that with complete boldness, even now as always, Christ will be exalted in my body, whether I live or die.

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.

For who is our hope or joy or crown to boast of before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not of course you?

Joy in Trials My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials,