- Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
- Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
- And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
- And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
- And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
In whispered trials, we find grace,
For each hardship bears His trace.
Hated, poor, yet strangely blessed,
In our sufferings, Christ confessed.
Through prisons dark or illness’ throes,
Where His love, the deeper grows,
A hundredfold awaits the meek,
For in the broken, Him we seek.
Minister as to the Lord,
In each act, His love outpoured.
Disciples true, in pain rejoice,
For in our trials, we hear His voice.