Blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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TSK · Romans 5:3
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In your patience ye shall win your souls.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.
Wherefore I ask that ye may not faint at my tribulations for you, which are your glory.
Yea, and if I am offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all:
Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations;
But even if ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed [are ye]: and fear not their fear, neither be troubled;