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

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.

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. {keep...: or, hold fast} {what: Gr. by what speech}

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every {branch} that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

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

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

{What} if God, willing to shew {his} wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: {fitted: or, made up}

Confirming the souls of the disciples, {and} exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Let us hold fast the profession of {our} faith without wavering; (for he {is} faithful that promised;)

But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, {then} are ye my disciples indeed;

And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to {our} father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

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.

And when ye see {this}, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and {his} indignation toward his enemies.

For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.

Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy {endureth} for ever. {overthrew: Heb. shaked off}

Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, {and} doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked {man} doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

The LORD {is} longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing {the guilty}, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth {generation}.

Again, When a righteous {man} doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. {righteousness which: Heb. righteousnesses}

Therefore it shall come to pass, {that} as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels {among them}.

See now that I, {even} I, {am} he, and {there is} no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither {is there any} that can deliver out of my hand.

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would {no doubt} have continued with us: but {they went out}, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

{Oh} how great {is} thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; {which} thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, {then} are ye my disciples indeed;

The LORD {is} good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. {strong hold: or, strength}

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth {therein}, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. {deed: or, doing}

And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises {made} unto the fathers:

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I {am} the LORD.

[A Psalm of David.] I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.

And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they {be} the children of whoredoms.

And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. {keep...: or, hold fast} {what: Gr. by what speech}

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.

The fear of the LORD {is} clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD {are} true {and} righteous altogether. {true: Heb. truth}