2 Thessalonians 3:13

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

For it is better, if it is God’s will, that you suffer for doing well than for doing evil.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving,

Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.

then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of my God.

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

Pray without ceasing.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

that I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

But he who endures to the end will be saved.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season.

The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’ ” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

Jesus said, “Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

For I delight in God’s law after the inward man,

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and faint-hearted? Let him go and return to his house, lest his brother’s heart melt as his heart.”

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living.

When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

and one male goat for a sin offering; in addition to the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.

‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.” ’

In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”

You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.