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32 And have ye mind on the former days, in which ye were lightened, and suffered great strife of passions [in which ye lightened sustained great strife, or fight, of passions].
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Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering.
33 And in the tother ye were made a spectacle by shames and tribulations; in another ye were made fellows of men living so. [And soothly in the tother ye were made a spectacle by reproofs and tribulations; in the tother forsooth ye be made fellows of men living so.]
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Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated.
34 For also to bound men ye had compassion, and ye received with joy the robbing of your goods, knowing that ye have a better and a dwelling substance [and ye received with joy the raven of your goods, knowing you to have a better and dwelling substance].
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You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.
35 Therefore do not ye lose your trust, which hath great rewarding.
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So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.
36 For patience is needful to you, that ye do the will of God, and bring again the promise [that ye doing the will of God, bring again the promise].
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You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.
37 For yet a little, and he that is to come shall come, and he shall not tarry.
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For, “In just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay.”
38 For my just man liveth of faith; that if he withdraweth himself, he shall not please to my soul.
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And, “But my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.”
39 But we be not the sons of withdrawing away into perdition, but of faith into [the] getting of soul.
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But we do not belong to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are saved.
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