And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

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

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not {his} brother abideth in death.

And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing. {be...: or, faint not}

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel;

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these {is} charity.

For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.

Blessed {be} the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, {abundant: Gr. much}

Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, {let him do it} with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness. {giveth: or, imparteth} {with simplicity: or, liberally}

And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. {assure: Gr. persuade}

And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and {in} all judgment; {judgment: or, sense}

If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and {be} not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, {and} which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

That by two immutable things, in which {it was} impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given {us} everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

And ye shall be hated of all {men} for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

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

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these {is} charity.

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned {them};

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, {and} giving of thanks, be made for all men; {exhort: or, desire}

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. {unbelief: or, disobedience}

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and {hath} nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

In your patience possess ye your souls.

By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; {and} make not all the people to labour thither; for they {are but} few. {about...: Heb. about two thousand men, or, about three thousand men}

Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep {it}, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

He becometh poor that dealeth {with} a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble {you}, and thereby many be defiled; {fail...; or, fall from}

For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.

And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it {is} very good: and {are} ye still? be not slothful to go, {and} to enter to possess the land.

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given {us} everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words.