But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.

Therefore what

benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.

End

Know that wisdom is thus for your soul;
If you find it, then there will be a

future,

And your hope will not be cut off.

Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

Thine

For the needy will not always be forgotten,
Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.

For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.