Endurance….
For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom.15.4-6
I thought it was interesting that the author started chapter 15 of Romans using in two, places the word, Endurance…
So, of course, I had to look it up some more…
It is mostly used in the New Testament, 4 of those in Romans, and 6 in Revelations, plus a few more..not only that, it is combined with “patient “…as in “patient endurance “…oh no…do we have to be patient while we endure? Sometimes that is really difficult, enduring in one thing, but doing it patiently adds a new dimension…it is so much easier to be impatient, complaining, grumbling rather than enduring patiently…in quiet rest through an ordeal…peacefully waiting on God or waiting in Him…
One raises agitation while the other gives peace…
Thank YOU…
By your endurance you will gain your lives.
Luke.21.19
Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character,
and character produces hope,
and hope does not put us to shame,
because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Rom.5.3-5
but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities,
2Cor.6.4
so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy;
giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
Col.1.10-12
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
Heb.12.1
“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. “‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.
Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.
Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth.
Rev.2.2,Rev.2.19,Rev.3.10
Fun song…
Still standing…
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