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sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.
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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.
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Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
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For you have need of endurance, so that you may do the will of God and receive what is promised.
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"For yet a little while, and the coming one shall come and shall not tarry;
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