Page 137 - Pleasant Words from the Gospe

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

ers, in all our distress and persecution we were encouraged
about you because of your faith. For now we really live, since
you are standing firm in the Lord. (1 Thessalonians, 3:6-8)

And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of
the field grow. They do not labor or spin. (Matthew, 6:28-29)

For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of un-
just suffering because he is conscious of God. But how is it to
your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and en-
dure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it,
this is commendable before God. To this [for God's good plea-
sure] you were called... that you should follow in his [Christ's]
steps. "He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his

mouth." When they hurled their insults at him, he did not re-
taliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he en-
trusted himself to Him Who judges justly. (1 Peter, 2:19-23)

You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers, relatives and
friends, and they will put some of you to death. All men will
hate you because of me [for following me for God's good plea-
sure]. But not a hair of your head will perish. By standing firm
you will gain life [the infinite life in paradise]. (Luke, 21:16-
19)

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men
loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into
the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever

lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen
plainly that what he has done has been done through God.
(John, 3:19-21)

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