Romans 5:3 Cross References - CLV

³ Yet not only so, but we may be glorying also in afflictions, having perceived that affliction is producing endurance,

¹⁰ "Happy are those persecuted on account of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens. ¹¹ "Happy are you whenever they should be reproaching and persecuting you and, falsifying, saying every wicked thing against you, on my account. ¹² Rejoice and exult, for your wages are vast in the heavens. For thus they persecute the prophets before you.

²² Happy are you whenever men should be hating you, and whenever they should be severing from you and reproaching you and casting out your name as wicked, on account of the Son of Mankind." ²³ You may be rejoicing in that day, and frisk, for lo! your wages are vast in heaven, for according to the same manner did their fathers to the prophets."

¹⁹ By your endurance shall you be acquiring your souls.

⁴¹ They, indeed, then, went from the face of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they were deemed worthy to be dishonored for the sake of the Name."

³⁵ What shall be separating us from the love of God in Christ Jesus? Affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? ³⁶ According as it is written that "On Thy account we are being put to death the whole day, We are reckoned as sheep for slaughter." ³⁷ Nay! in all these we are more than conquering through Him Who loves us.

¹⁷ For the momentary lightness of our affliction is producing for us a transcendently transcendent eonian burden of glory,

²³ Servants of Christ are they? (Being insane, I am speaking.) Above them am I! In weariness more exceedingly, in jails more exceedingly, in blows inordinatley, in deaths often. " ²⁴ By Jews five times I got forty save one. ²⁵ Thrice am I flogged with rods, once am I stoned, thrice am I shipwrecked, a night and a day have I spent in a swamp, " ²⁶ in journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers of my race, in dangers of the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers in the sea, in dangers among false brethren; " ²⁷ in toil and labor, in vigils often, in famine and thirst, in fasts often, in cold and nakedness; " ²⁸ apart from what is outside, that which is coming upon me daily, the solicitude for all the ecclesias. " ²⁹ Who is weak and I am not weak? Who is snared and I am not on fire? ³⁰ If I must boast, I will be boasting in that which is of my weakness. "

⁹ And He has protested to me, "Sufficient for you is My grace, for My power in infirmity is being perfected.With the greatest relish, then, will I rather be glorying in my infirmities, that the power of Christ should be tabernacling over me. " ¹⁰ Wherefore I delight in infirmities, in outrages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake, for, whenever I may be weak, then I am powerful. "

¹³ Wherefore I am requesting you not to be despondent at those of my afflictions for your sake which are your glory.

²⁹ for to you it is graciously granted, for Christ's sake, not only to be believing on Him, but to be suffering for His sake also,

¹⁷ But even if I am a libation on the sacrifice and ministration of your faith, I am rejoicing myself and rejoicing together with you all." ¹⁸ Now, to be mutual, you also be rejoicing, and be rejoicing together with me."

¹⁰ For these, indeed, disciplined for a few days as it seemed best to them, yet that One for our expedience, for us to be partaking of His holiness." ¹¹ Now all discipline, indeed, for the present is not seeming to be a thing of joy, but of sorrow, yet subsequently it is rendering the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it."

² All joy deem it, my brethren, whenever you should be falling into various trials, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith is producing endurance.

¹² Happy is the man who is enduring trial, for, becoming qualified, he will be obtaining the wreath of life, which He promises to those loving Him."

¹⁴ Yet if you may be suffering also because of righteousness, happy are you. Now you may not be afraid with their fear, nor yet be disturbed,

¹⁶ yet if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, yet let him be glorifying God in this name, ¹⁷ seeing that it is the era for the judgment to begin from the house of God. Now if first from us, what is the consummation of those who are stubborn as to God's evangel?