For we know that every creature groans, and is in pain together, till now:

And ought not this woman, who is a daughter of Abra ham, whom Satan has bound, lo, these eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day?

And, lest I should be too much exalted by the excellence of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I might not be too much exalted.

And his disciples asked him, saying: Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered: Neither this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God might be made manifest in him.

And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because he did not give God the glory. And having been eaten by worms, he expired.

And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness, and he went about and sought some to lead him by the hand.

and he said to me: My grace is sufficient for you; for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will I boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may abide upon me.

And fear not them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. But rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

And when they came to the place called Skull, they there crucified him and the evil-doers; one on the right, and the other on the left.

For this reason we faint not: but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day. by day. For our present light affliction works out for us an eternal fullness of glory, excelling all excellence, ls while we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are not seen: for the things seen are temporal; but the things not seen are eternal. #VALUE!

Are they ministers of Christ? (I say it foolishly,) I am above them. In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often. From the Jews, five times I received forty stripes, save one; three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three- times I have been shipwrecked; a night and a day I spent in the deep.read more.
In journeying s often, in perils from rivers, in perils from robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and in toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness:

Then Jesus said to them: My soul is encompassed with sorrow even to death; remain here, and watch with me.

I had no rest in. my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; but I took leave of them, and went into Macedonia.

for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds:

Then, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews that came with her weeping also, he was greatly moved in spirit, and troubled; and he said: Where have you laid him? They said to him: Lord, come and see. Jesus wept.

And, indeed, he was sick near to death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.

But concerning those who have fallen asleep, I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that you may not grieve, as others who have no hope.

And when he has come, he will convince the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment.

and stood behind at his feet, weeping; and she began to wash his feet with her tears; and she wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.

And when we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying, in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.

And if your eye ensnare you, pull it out: it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be thrown into hell-fire, where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.

But I say to you, Whoever is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be liable to the sentence of the judges. And whoever shall say to his brother, Worthless fellow, shall be liable to the sentence of the Sanhedrin. But who ever shall say, Impious wretch, shall be in danger of hell-fire.

but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast into the darkness that is without. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but your selves cast out.

and said to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

My little children, for whom I again suffer the pains of gestation, till Christ be formed in you,

serving the Lord with all lowliness of mind, and with tears, and with trials, which came upon me through the plots of the Jews;

But I determined this in myself, that with sorrow I would not again come to you: for if I cause you to grieve, who is he that makes me glad, but he that is made sorry by me? And I wrote to you this very thing, that, on coming to you, I might not have sorrow from those from whom I ought to receive joy; because I have confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.read more.
For out of much affliction and distress of heart, I wrote to you with many tears: not that you might be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more abundantly for you. But if any one has caused grief, he has grieved, not me only, but, in some measure not to speak harshly all of you.

besides those things which come upon me from other sources, I have a daily concourse of troubles my anxiety for all the churches.

For many walk, of whom I often said to you, and now say even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of the Christ,

In the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, to him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard with respect to that which he feared,

All this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him and fled.

And he came to his disciples, and found them sleeping; and he said to Peter: Was it so, that you had not strength to watch with me one hour?

When Jesus had spoken these things, he was troubled in spirit, and testified and said: Verily, verily I say to you, that one of you will deliver me up.

Have I then become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

for Demas has forsaken me, having loved the present age; and he has gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Wherefore, let those also who suffer according to the will of God, by doing good, commit their souls to him as to a faithful Creator.

Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God; believe also in me.