| 32 | But recall the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, |
| 33 | sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated. |
| 34 | For you had compassion on the prisoners, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one. |
| 35 | Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. |
| 36 | For you have need of endurance, so that you may do the will of God and receive what is promised. |
| 37 | "For yet a little while, and the coming one shall come and shall not tarry; |
| 38 | but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him." |
| 39 | But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and keep their souls. |