- For this very reason, you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.
- The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. - But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
- But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.
- Keep awake therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.
- Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us.
- I am coming soon; hold fast to what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.
- Rend your hearts and not your clothing.
Return to the Lord, your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love,
and relents from punishing. - The hope of the righteous ends in gladness,
but the expectation of the wicked comes to nothing.
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