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  1. Remember the the former days, when after you were enlightened, you endured a great contest of suffering.
  2. Sometimes you were exposed publicly to abuse and afflictions,
and at other times you were in fellowship with those who were being treated in this way.
  1. For you sympathized with the prisoners
and accepted with joy the confiscation of your possessions,
because you knew that you yourselves have a better possession—and an enduring one.
 
  1. Therefore do not throw away your confidence,
      which has a great reward.
  2. Therefore you need endurance, so that, having done God’s will,
      you will receive what has been promised.
 
  1. For “in just a little while, the Coming One will come and not delay.
  1. But my righteous one will live by faith;
yet if he shrinks back, my soul will not be pleased with him.”
  1. But we are not those who shrink back and thus perish,
but those who have faith and are preserved.