³²But recall the former days when, after ryou were enlightened, you endured sa hard struggle with sufferings, ³³sometimes being tpublicly exposed to reproach and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. ³⁴For uyou had compassion on those in prison, and vyou joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had wa better possession and an abiding one. ³⁵Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has xa great reward. ³⁶For yyou have need of endurance, so that zwhen you have done the will of God you may areceive what is promised. ³⁷For,

b“Yet a little while,

and cthe coming one will come and will not delay;

³⁸dbut my righteous one shall live by faith,

and if he shrinks back,

my soul has no pleasure in him.”

³⁹But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

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