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:

² Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort;

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

⁴¹ So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.

¹³ But be glad that you are given a part in the pains of Christ; so that at the revelation of his glory you may have great joy.

²² Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.

¹¹ Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.

¹² Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.

⁸ Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:

²⁷ And when they came there, and had got the church together, they gave them an account of all the things which God had done through them, and how he had made open a door of faith to the Gentiles.

⁴⁴ No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.

⁴⁵ The writings of the prophets say, And they will all have teaching from God. Everyone whose ears have been open to the teaching of the Father comes to me.

¹² To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:

¹³ Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.