Romans 5:3 Cross References - Anderson

³ And not only so, but we rejoice in afflictions also; because we know that affliction produces patience,

¹⁰ Blessed are they that are persecuted on account of righteousness; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹ Blessed are you, when they shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say every evil thing against you, falsely, on my account. ¹² Rejoice, and leap for joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

²² Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and shall withdraw themselves from you, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, on account of the Son of man. ²³ Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy; for behold, your reward is great in heaven: for so did their fathers to the prophets.

¹⁹ By your patient endurance, preserve your lives.

⁴¹ Then, they went from the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they were thought worthy to suffer shame for his name's sake.

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? Shall affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword? ³⁶ As it is written: For thy sake, we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. ³⁷ Yet, in all these things, we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us.

¹⁷ For our present light affliction works out for us an eternal fullness of glory, excelling all excellence, ls while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen: for the things seen are temporal; but the things not seen are eternal.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I say it foolishly,) I am above them. In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often. ²⁴ From the Jews, five times I received forty stripes, save one; ²⁵ three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three- times I have been shipwrecked; a night and a day I spent in the deep. ²⁶ In journeying s often, in perils from rivers, in perils from robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; ²⁷ in weariness and in toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness: ²⁸ besides those things which come upon me from other sources, I have a daily concourse of troubles my anxiety for all the churches. ²⁹ Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I am not incensed? ³⁰ If I must boast, I will boast in my infirmities.

⁹ and he said to me: My grace is sufficient for you; for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will I boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may abide upon me. ¹⁰ For this reason, I take pleasure in infirmities, in outrages, in necessities, in persecutions, in straits, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

¹³ For which cause I beseech you not to grow faint on account of my afflictions for you, which are your glory.

²⁹ For to you it is given in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but, also, to suffer for him,

¹⁷ But if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all. ¹⁸ In like manner do you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

¹⁰ For they, indeed, for a few days, chastened us as they thought it good; but he chastens us for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. ¹¹ But no chastisement seems, at the time, to be a matter of joy, but of grief: yet afterward, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it.

² My brethren, count it all joy, when you fall into manifold trials, ³ knowing that the trial of your faith produces patience.

¹² Blessed is the man that endures trial: for, being approved, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

¹⁴ But yet, if you even suffer for righteousness, happy are you. Yet fear not their terror, nor be troubled:

¹⁶ But if any one suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God on this account. ¹⁷ For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God; and if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of those who obey not the gospel of God?