but Christ as a son over his own house: whose house are we, if we hold firmly the confidence and glorying of hope stedfast unto the end.

For we are partakers with Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end;

Having then a great high-priest passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession.

that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us;

which, as an anchor for our soul, we hold both sure and stedfast, and entering into the sanctuary within the vail,

not according to that covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I laid hold upon their hand to lead them up out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I took no longer care of them, saith the Lord.

let us hold fast the profession of hope unwavering, (for he who promises is faithful.)

Wherefore receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, may we hold fast the grace, by which we can offer to God acceptably divine service, with reverence and pious awe: