Habakkuk 1:2-3

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Habakkuk’s Complaint

²How long,^(A) Lord, must I call for help,
    but you do not listen?^(B)
Or cry out to you, “Violence!”
    but you do not save?^(C)
³Why do you make me look at injustice?
    Why do you tolerate^(D) wrongdoing?^(E)
Destruction and violence^(F) are before me;
    there is strife,^(G) and conflict abounds.

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Habakkuk 2:2-4

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The Lord’s Answer

²Then the Lord replied:

“Write^(A) down the revelation
    and make it plain on tablets
    so that a herald^[a] may run with it.
³For the revelation awaits an appointed time;^(B)
    it speaks of the end^(C)
    and will not prove false.
Though it linger, wait^(D) for it;
    it^[b] will certainly come
    and will not delay.^(E)

⁴“See, the enemy is puffed up;
his desires are not upright—
but the righteous person^(F) will live by his faithfulness^[c]^(G)—

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Footnotes

Habakkuk 2:2 Or so that whoever reads it
Habakkuk 2:3 Or Though he linger, wait for him; / he
Habakkuk 2:4 Or faith

2 Timothy 1:6-8

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Appeal for Loyalty to Paul and the Gospel

⁶For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.^(A) ⁷For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid,^(B) but gives us power,^(C) love and self-discipline. ⁸So do not be ashamed^(D) of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner.^(E) Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel,^(F) by the power of God.

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2 Timothy 1:13-14

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¹³What you heard from me,^(A) keep^(B) as the pattern^(C) of sound teaching,^(D) with faith and love in Christ Jesus.^(E) ¹⁴Guard^(F) the good deposit that was entrusted to you—guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.^(G)

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Luke 17:5-10

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⁵The apostles^(A) said to the Lord,^(B) “Increase our faith!”

⁶He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed,^(C) you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.^(D)

⁷“Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, ‘Come along now and sit down to eat’? ⁸Won’t he rather say, ‘Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me^(E) while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink’? ⁹Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? ¹⁰So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”^(F)