For I consider that the suffering of the present age are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us
...Christ in you, the hope of glory. If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we of all men are most pitiable-
blessed be God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ who, by His mercy has given us a new birth in to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and to an inheritance, which is unperishabale, undefiled, unfaiding, kept in heaven for you, who by Gods
power are guarded through faith to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time... You also, as living stones build up a spiritual house-now therefore, you are no longer aliens and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and memers of the household of God, build on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the cheif cornerstone, in him the whole building, being fittet together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also, are being build together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit
Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ- now I commed you to God and to the word of his grace which is able to build you up.
blessed be God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of all mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our afflictions, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, whith the comfort with which we ourselves were comforted by God.
For as we share abundatly in Christ sufferings, so through Christ we share abudatly in comfort too.
And how great is the inward tranquility of Gods church.
Even when opposed and persecuted, she has a peace within the world can never give, and which therefore, it cannot take away. The peace of God which passes all understanding keeps the hearts and minds of Gods people.
(This is from the ministry haus-barnabas, where I used to serve)
