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Acts 16:14
A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us. The Lord opened her heart to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.
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1 Thessalonians 3 2-1 Thessalonians 3 3
and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.
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Acts 14:22
strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
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2 Corinthians 4 8-2 Corinthians 4 12
We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;always carrying in the body the putting to death of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.So then death works in us, but life in you.
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Acts 4:23
Being let go, they came to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
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2 Corinthians 4 16-2 Corinthians 4 18
Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory,while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
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2 Corinthians 1 3-2 Corinthians 1 7
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.
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Acts 12:12-17
Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer.When she recognized Peter’s voice, she didn’t open the gate for joy, but ran in, and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.They said to her,“ You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said,“ It is his angel.”But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said,“ Tell these things to James and to the brothers.” Then he departed and went to another place.
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Acts 16:2
The brothers who were at Lystra and Iconium gave a good testimony about him.