Acts 14:22 Cross References - Goodspeed

²² reassuring the disciples and encouraging them to stand by the faith and reminding them that we have to undergo many hardships to get into the Kingdom of God.

²¹ One brother will give up another to death, and a father his child, and children will turn against their parents, and have them put to death. ²² You will be hated by everybody on my account, but the man who holds out to the very end will be saved.

³⁸ and no one who will not take up his cross and follow me is worthy of me.

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to go with me, he must disregard himself and take his cross and follow me.

²⁴ And again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of God!"

⁴⁷ And if your eye makes you fall, tear it out. You might better get into the Kingdom of God with only one eye than be thrown with both your eyes into the pit,

²⁴ But the disciples were amazed at what he said. And Jesus said to them again, "My children, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God! ²⁵ It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of God!"

³⁰ but will receive now in this life a hundred times as much in homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and lands, though not without persecution—and in the coming age eternal life.

²⁸ But it is you who have stood by me in my trials. ²⁹ So just as my Father has conferred a kingdom on me

²⁶ Did not the Christ have to suffer thus before entering upon his glory?"

⁵ Jesus answered, "I tell you, if a man does not owe his birth to water and spirit, he cannot get into the Kingdom of God.

³¹ So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide by what I teach, you are really disciples of mine, ³² and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free."

²⁵ Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life. ²⁶ If anyone serves me, he must follow me, and wherever I am found, my servant must be also. If anyone serves me, my Father will show him honor.

⁴ You must remain united to me and I will remain united to you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains united to the vine, you cannot unless you remain united to me. ⁵ I am the vine, you are the branches. Anyone who remains united to me, with me united to him, will be very fruitful, for you cannot do anything apart from me. ⁶ Anyone who does not remain united to me is thrown away like a branch and withers up, and they gather them and throw them into the fire and burn them.

⁹ I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must retain my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands you will retain my love, just as I have observed the Father's commands and retain his love.

²⁰ Remember what I said to you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too.

¹ "I have told you this to keep you from faltering. ² They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God.

³³ I have told you all this, so that through me you may find peace. In the world you have trouble; but take courage! I have conquered the world."

⁷ So God's message continued to spread; the number of the disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a great many priests accepted the faith.

¹⁶ For I am going to show him what he will have to endure for my sake."

²³ When he reached there and saw the favor God had shown them, he was delighted, and encouraged them all to be resolute and steadfast in their devotion to the Lord,

⁴³ and after the congregation had broken up, many of the Jews and the devout converts to Judaism went away with Paul and Barnabas, and they talked with them, and urged them to rely on the favor of God.

³² Judas and Silas were themselves prophets, and gave the brothers much encouragement and strength by their words.

⁴¹ He traveled through Syria and Cilicia and strengthened the churches.

²³ After spending some time there, he started out again, and traveled systematically through Galatia and Phrygia, reassuring all the disciples.

¹⁷ and if children, heirs also; heirs of God, and fellow-heirs with Christ, if we really share his sufferings in order to share his glory too.

⁸ and at the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ he will insure your complete vindication.

²³ if at least you continue firm and steadfast in the exercise of faith, and never shift from the hope held out in the good news to which you listened, which has been preached all over the world, and for which I, Paul, became a worker.

² and I sent my brother Timothy, a servant of God in preaching the good news of the Christ, to strengthen you in your faith ³ and encourage you not to be led astray, any of you, in all these troubles. You know yourselves that this is what we must expect, ⁴ for when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we were going to have trouble, and it came true, as you know.

¹³ so that your hearts may be strong and faultlessly pure in the sight of our God and Father, when our Lord Jesus appears with all his saints!

⁸ So you must not be ashamed to testify to our Lord, nor be ashamed of me who am in prison for his sake, but join with me in suffering for the good news, through the power of God.

¹¹ How true those words are! "If we have died with him, we will live with him! ¹² If we endure, we will reign with him! If we disown him, he will also disown us!

¹² But everyone who wants to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

¹² Dear friends, do not be surprised that a test of fire is being applied to you, as though a strange thing were happening to you, ¹³ but be glad that you are in a measure sharing the sufferings of the Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may be triumphantly happy. ¹⁴ If you are being abused for the sake of Christ, you are blessed, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you. ¹⁵ For no one of you must suffer as a murderer or thief or criminal or revolutionist, ¹⁶ but if a man suffers for being a Christian, he must not be ashamed of it, but must do honor to God through that name.

¹⁰ And God, the giver of all mercy, who through your union with Christ has called you to his eternal glory, after you have suffered a little while will himself make you perfect, steadfast, and strong.

¹¹ for then you will be triumphantly admitted to the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

³ Dear friends, I was just on the point of writing to you about our common salvation, when it became necessary for me to write and appeal to you to come to the defense of the faith that has once for all been intrusted to God's people.

²⁰ But you, dear friends, must build yourselves up on the foundation of your most holy faith and pray in the holy Spirit, ²¹ and keep in the love of God, and wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to bring you to eternal life.

⁹ I, John, your brother and companion in the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance that Jesus brings, found myself on the island called Patmos, for uttering God's message and testifying to Jesus.

¹⁰ Do not be afraid of what you are going to suffer. See! The devil is going to put some of you into prison to be tested there, and for ten days to endure persecution. Prove faithful even unto death and I will give you the crown of life.

¹⁴ I said to him, "You know, my lord." He said to me, "They are the people who come through the great persecution, who have washed their robes white in the blood of the Lamb.