We know surely if our earthy mansion wherein we now dwell were destroyed, that we have a building ordained of God, a habitation not made with hands, but eternal in heaven:

Remember them that are in bonds, even as though ye were bound with them. Be mindful of them which are in adversity, as ye which are yet in your bodies.

To stir

This is the second epistle that I now write unto you, my dearly beloved, wherewith I stir up and warn your pure minds,

So the LORD waked up the spirit of Zerubbabel the prince of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jozadak the high priest, and the spirit of the remnant of all the people: that they came and laboured, in the house of the LORD of Hosts their God.

Wherefore I warn thee that thou stir up the gift of God which is in thee, by the putting on of my hands.

By

Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of such things, though that ye know them yourselves and be also established in the present truth.

General references

For I must die in this land, and shall not go over Jordan: But ye shall go over and conquer that good land.

Happy is that servant: whom his master, when he cometh, shall find so doing.