All these your servants will come down to me and bow themselves before me, saying, ‘Go out, you and all the people who follow you,’ and after that I will go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is the Lord’s Passover.

Now when Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, even though it was near; for God said, “The people might change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt.”

Not fearing

But he said, “Who made you a prince or a judge over us? Are you intending to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and said, “Surely the matter has become known.”

Now the Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who were seeking your life are dead.”

As Pharaoh drew near, the sons of Israel looked, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them, and they became very frightened; so the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord.

Endured

And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.

But remember the former days, when, after being enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings,

For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary

and lose heart.

You will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.

But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.

and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away.

You will be hated by all because of My name, but the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

We count those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome of the Lord’s dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.

Seeing

Now faith is the

assurance of things

hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the

author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

I have set the Lord continually before me;

Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

For David says of Him,
‘I saw the Lord always in my presence;
For He is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken.

while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.

and though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

General references

Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.