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31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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32 But call to remembrance the former days in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions,
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32 Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering.
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33 partly while ye were being made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions, and partly while ye became companions of those who were so used.
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33 Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.
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34 For ye had compassion on me in my bonds and took joyfully the despoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in Heaven a better and an enduring substance.
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34 You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.
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35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.
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35 So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.
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36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
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36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.
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37 "For yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
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37 For in just a very little while, "He who is coming will come and will not delay.
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38 Now the just shall live by faith; but if any man draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him."
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38 But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him."
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39 But we are not of those who draw back unto perdition, but of those who believe, to the saving of the soul.
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39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.
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