suffering for righteousness

“Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”...

Led up by the Spirit Matthew 4:1 ESV “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.” Compare this to this passage of Scripture in Isaiah 53:10: Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life an...