TSK · Philippians 1:30

I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage– I have conquered the world.”

Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will trouble, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

Why too are we in danger every hour?

Toward this goal I also labor, struggling according to his power that powerfully works in me.

For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,

Compete well for the faith and lay hold of that eternal life you were called for and made your good confession for in the presence of many witnesses.

I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith!

You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed in your struggle against sin.

But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.