Bible Verses About Resignation

Then he kneeled down and shouted out, “Lord! Don’t hold this sin against them!” With that, he died;

but Sha’ul answered, “What are you doing, crying and trying to weaken my resolve? I am prepared not only to be tied up, but even to die in Yerushalayim for the name of the Lord Yeshua.”

And when he would not be convinced, we said, “May the Lord’s will be done,” and kept quiet.

But not only that, let us also boast in our troubles; because we know that trouble produces endurance,

endurance produces character, and character produces hope;

and this hope does not let us down, because God’s love for us has already been poured out in our hearts through the Ruach HaKodesh who has been given to us.

Who are you, a mere human being, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to him who formed it, “Why did you make me this way?”

Or has the potter no right to make from a given lump of clay this pot for honorable use and that one for dishonorable?

For God has shut up all mankind together in disobedience, in order that he might show mercy to all.

O the depth of the riches and the wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments! How unsearchable are his ways!

Rejoice in your hope, be patient in your troubles, and continue steadfastly in prayer.

We try not to put obstacles in anyone’s path, so that no one can find fault with the work we do.

On the contrary, we try to commend ourselves in every way as workers for God by continually enduring troubles, hardships, calamities,

beatings, imprisonments, riots, overwork, lack of sleep and food.

We commend ourselves by our purity, knowledge, patience and kindness; by the Ruach HaKodesh; by genuineness of love

and truthfulness of speech; and by God’s power. We commend ourselves through our use of righteous weapons, whether for pressing our cause or defending it;

through being honored and dishonored, praised and blamed, considered deceptive and sincere,

unknown and famous. And we commend ourselves as God’s workers headed for death, yet look! we’re alive! as punished, yet not killed;

as having reason to be sad, yet always filled with joy; as poor, yet making many people rich; as having nothing, yet having everything!

Dear friends in Corinth! We have spoken frankly to you, we have opened our hearts wide.

that I am very confident in you; that I am very proud of you; that you have filled me with encouragement; and that in spite of all our troubles, I am overflowing with joy.

It all accords with my earnest expectation and hope that I will have nothing to be ashamed of; but rather, now, as always, the Messiah will be honored by my body, whether it is alive or dead.

For to me, life is the Messiah, and death is gain.

But if by living on in the body I can do fruitful work, then I don’t know which to choose.

I am caught in a dilemma: my desire is to go off and be with the Messiah — that is better by far —