I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them which are exercised thereby.
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.
By Cheng Tu One day in 33 A.D., dark clouds loomed over Jerusalem, filling the air with gloom. The Lord Jesus, with a crown of thorns on His head, was standing on the platform where the trial had been held. Off the platform were the angry chief priests, ...
For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created to this time, neither shall be.
My soul, wait you only on God; for my expectation is from him.
