¹² that you do not become ^[a]sluggish, but imitate those who through faith and patience ^(A)inherit the promises.

^36 (A)For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, ^(B)you may receive the promise:

⁶ to knowledge self-control, to self-control ^[a]perseverance, to perseverance godliness,

² that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;