Luke 21:19

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Luke 21:19

In your patience possess ye your souls.

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"And that in the good soil is those who have listened to the message and, in an honest and good heart, hold fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.

eternal life to those who by patience in well-doing strive for glory and honor and immortality;

And not only so, but we are actually exulting also even in our troubles; for we know that trouble works fortitude,

Who hopes for what he clearly sees? But if we hope for something that we do not see, we then patiently wait for it.

For everything that was written of old has been written for our instruction, that through patience, and through the comfort of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

as I call to mind your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father.

May the Lord incline your hearts to the love of God and to the stedfastness of Christ.

but I am longing that each of you continue to show the same diligence to realize the fulness of your hope, even to the end.

For you need stedfastness, so that after having done the will of God, you may receive the promise,

because you know that the testing of your faith is working out endurance.

Be patient, then, brothers, till the coming of the Lord. Behold the farmer who waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it gets the early and the latter rains.

I, John, who am your brother and who share with you in the woes and kingdom and stedfastness of Jesus, found myself in the island called Patmos, for the sake of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

I know your works and your toil and stedfastness, and that you cannot endure evil men, and that you tested those who called themselves apostles, though they are not, and how you found them false.

Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will keep you from that hour of trial which is about to come upon the whole inhabited earth, to test those who dwell on the earth.

Whoever is destined to go into captivity, goes into captivity. Whoever shall kill with the sword, shall surely be killed by the sword. (Here is the endurance and faith of the saints.)

Here is the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.