TSK · Luke 20:35

Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake– some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.

Jesus answered them,“You are deceived, because you don’t know the scriptures or the power of God.

But stay alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

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

Encouragement in Persecution This is evidence of God’s righteous judgment, to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which in fact you are suffering.

But you have a few individuals in Sardis who have not stained their clothes, and they will walk with me dressed in white, because they are worthy.