It so increases that we ourselves make honourable mention of you among the Churches of God because of your patience and faith amid all your persecutions and amid the afflictions which you are enduring.

It is with this view also that we continually pray to our God for you, asking that He will count you worthy of His call, and by His mighty power fully gratify your every desire for what is truly good and make your work of faith complete;

comfort your hearts and make you stedfast in every good work and word.

But the Lord is faithful, and He will make you stedfast and will guard you from the Evil one.