These Scriptures include the word “joy” as something experienced by believers even as they endured persecution and suffering for the sake of Jesus. Acts 13:49-52 The word of the Lord spread through the whole region. 50 But the Jewish leaders incited the God-fearing women of high standing and the leading men of the Read more
We were therefore buried with him through baptism
into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead
through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. — Romans 6:4
