Blessed is he who patiently endures trials; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the victor's crown--even the crown of Life--which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.

Listen, my dearly-loved brethren. Has not God chosen those whom the world regards as poor to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom which He has promised to those that love Him?

Him you love, though your eyes have never looked on Him. In Him, though at present you cannot see Him, you nevertheless trust, and triumph with a joy which is unspeakable and is crowned with glory,

We love because God first loved us.

The fact that we love God Himself, and obey His commands, is a proof that we love God's children.

Hate

For what I do, I do not recognize as my own action. What I desire to do is not what I do, but what I am averse to is what I do.

Let your love be perfectly sincere. Regard with horror what is evil; cling to what is right.

Preserveth

"My Lord and my God!" replied Thomas.

Now we know that for those who love God all things are working together for good--for those, I mean, whom with deliberate purpose He has called.

whom God in His power is guarding through faith for a salvation that even now stands ready for unveiling at the End of the Age.

Delivereth

and then the Lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will sweep away with the tempest of His anger, and utterly overwhelm by the awful splendour of His Coming.

and that we may be delivered from wrong-headed and wicked men; for it is not everybody who has faith.

We know that no one who is a child of God lives in sin, but He who is God's Child keeps him, and the Evil one cannot touch him.

And all the inhabitants of the earth will be found to be worshipping him: every one whose name is not recorded in the Book of Life--the Book of the Lamb who has been offered in sacrifice ever since the creation of the world.