Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.

甚至我们在神的各教会里为你们夸口，都因你们在所受的一切逼迫患难中，仍旧存忍耐和信心。

所以，我们在上帝的各教会里为你们夸耀，因为你们在所受的一切压迫患难中仍牢守着耐心和信心。

所以，我们在神的各教会里为你们夸耀，因为你们在所受的一切压迫患难中仍牢守着耐心和信心。

因此，我们在上帝的众教会中夸奖你们在各种迫害和患难中的坚忍和信心。

所以我们在神的众教会里，亲自夸奖你们，因为你们在所受的一切迫害患难中，仍然存着坚忍和信心。

所以，我们自己在神的各教会中以你们夸耀，因为你们在一切的逼迫和患难中保持着你们的忍耐和信仰。

甚至我們在神的各教會裏為你們誇口，都因你們在所受的一切逼迫患難中，仍舊存忍耐和信心。

所以，我們在上帝的各教會裏為你們誇耀，因為你們在所受的一切壓迫患難中仍牢守着耐心和信心。

所以，我們在神的各教會裏為你們誇耀，因為你們在所受的一切壓迫患難中仍牢守着耐心和信心。

因此，我們在上帝的眾教會中誇獎你們在各種迫害和患難中的堅忍和信心。

所以我們在神的眾教會裡，親自誇獎你們，因為你們在所受的一切迫害患難中，仍然存著堅忍和信心。

以致我們在上帝的眾教會裏、親自拿你們來誇口，誇你們的堅忍和信心、在你們受的一切逼迫以及所忍受的患難中、仍然保持着。

所以，我們自己在神的各教會中以你們誇耀，因為你們在一切的逼迫和患難中保持著你們的忍耐和信仰。

致我儕於上帝諸會、以爾為誇、緣爾在窘逐苦難中之忍與信也、

爾於窘逐患難間、恆忍、信主、故我儕於上帝諸會前譽爾、

爾受諸窘逐患難、而於其中仍存忍與信、故我儕在天主諸教會中為爾而誇、

且爾等於重重困辱憂患之中、仍能堅忍不拔、篤信不移、此尤為吾儕之所誇耀於天主眾會者也。

Therefore, among God’s churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.

So among God’s churches we brag about the fact that you don’t give up easily. We brag about your faith in all the suffering and testing you are going through.

We proudly tell God’s other churches about your endurance and faithfulness in all the persecutions and hardships you are suffering.

Therefore, we ourselves boast about you among God’s churches— about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions that you are enduring.

As a result, we ourselves speak proudly of you among the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in the midst of all your persecutions and afflictions which you endure.

so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure,

so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;

Therefore, we ourselves boast about you among God’s churches— about your endurance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you endure.

So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

As a result we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions you are enduring.

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,

For what is our hope or joy or crown of boasting before our Lord Jesus at his coming? Is it not you?

For whatever boasts I made to him about you, I was not put to shame. But just as everything we said to you was true, so also our boasting before Titus has proved true.

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,looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.

Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains.You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.

Otherwise, if some Macedonians come with me and find that you are not ready, we would be humiliated— to say nothing of you— for being so confident.

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;

Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.

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.

for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,

And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.

for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year. And your zeal has stirred up most of them.

Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

and we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this.For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, just as it has come to pass, and just as you know.For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you—for this reason, brothers, in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith.For now we live, if you are standing fast in the Lord.