¹⁵ All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast.

²² A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.

¹³ A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

¹⁰ As full of sorrow, but ever glad; as poor, but giving wealth to others; as having nothing, but still having all things.

¹² Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,

¹¹ And not only so, but we have joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we are now at peace with God.

² Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.

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

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.

⁶ You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,

⁷ So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

⁸ To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:

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

²⁵ But about the middle of the night, Paul and Silas were making prayers and songs to God in the hearing of the prisoners;

²² Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it; but the punishment of the foolish is their foolish behaviour.