³⁹ He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him.

²⁹ Because to you it has been given in the cause of Christ not only to have faith in him, but to undergo pain on his account:

¹⁹ Great are the troubles of the upright: but the Lord takes him safely out of them all.

³⁵ Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword?

³ And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.

¹⁷ Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.

⁵ For as we undergo more of the pain which Christ underwent, so through Christ does our comfort become greater.

¹⁷ For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;

¹ So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;

²¹ This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps:

¹⁰ And after you have undergone pain for a little time, the God of all grace who has given you a part in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will himself give you strength and support, and make you complete in every good thing;

²² And so, by God's help, I am here today, witnessing to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come about;

²³ That the Christ would go through pain, and being the first to come back from the dead, would give light to the people and to the Gentiles.

²⁴ And when he made his answer in these words, Festus said in a loud voice, Paul, you are off your head; your great learning has made you unbalanced.

² Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.

¹⁰ That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death;

⁴ But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.

¹⁴ But you are happy if you undergo pain because of righteousness; have no part in their fear and do not be troubled;

³ Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.

²⁸ And they took off his clothing, and put on him a red robe.

²⁹ And they made a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and put a rod in his right hand, and they went down on their knees before him, and made sport of him, saying, Long life to the King of the Jews.

³⁰ And they put shame on him, and gave him blows on the head with the rod.

³ And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;

⁴ And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:

⁵ And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.

³ Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort;

⁴ Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

⁵ For as we undergo more of the pain which Christ underwent, so through Christ does our comfort become greater.

²⁰ Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said,

²¹ With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

²² In all this Job did no sin, and did not say that God's acts were foolish.

²³ And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.

²⁴ And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.

²⁵ But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.

¹⁸ I am of the opinion that there is no comparison between the pain of this present time and the glory which we will see in the future.

³⁸ And he who does not take his cross and come after me is not good enough for me.