Joy in Salvation.

He will swallow up death forever,  And the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces;  

The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the LORD has spoken. 

And it will be said in that day: “Behold, this is our God; We have waited for Him, and He will save us. 

This is the LORD; We have waited for Him; We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.” (Isaiah 25:8-9)

Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began, but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, to which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. 

For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.  (1 Timothy 1:8-12)

Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God which He promised before through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead. (Romans 1:1-4)