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33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
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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 ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring 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 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
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So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.
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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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 while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
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For, “In just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay.”
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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And, “But my righteous one will live by faith. And I take no pleasure in the one who shrinks back.”
39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the 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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