“‘Son,’ Abraham said, ‘remember that during your life you received your good things, just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.

So what fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

End

realize that wisdom is the same for you.
If you find it, you will have a future,
and your hope will never fade.

So don’t throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

Thine

For the oppressed will not always be forgotten;
the hope of the afflicted will not perish forever.

For I know the plans I have for you”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“plans for your welfare, not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all boldness, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether by life or by death.