We beseech you, brothers, keep a check upon loafers, encourage the faint-hearted, sustain weak souls, never lose your temper with anyone;

Thank God, though you did serve sin, you have rendered whole-hearted obedience to what you were taught under the rule of faith;

be kind to each other, be tender-hearted, be generous to each other as God has been generous to you in Christ.

Then Jesus called his disciples and said, "I am sorry for the crowd; they have been three days with me now, and they have nothing to eat. I will not send them away starving, in case they faint on the road."

If I send them home without food they will faint on the road. Besides, some of them have come a long way."

And have you forgotten the word of appeal that reasons with you as sons? ??My son, never make light of the Lord's discipline, never faint under his reproofs;

Never let us grow tired of doing what is right, for if we do not faint we shall reap our harvest at the opportune season.

Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing.