² and by which you are being saved, if you hold to the message I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.^(A)

⁶ But Christ was faithful as a Son over his household. And we are that household if we hold on to our confidence and the hope in which we boast.^[a](A)

²³ Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, since he who promised is faithful.^(A)

Living by Faith

11 Now faith is the reality^[a] of what is hoped for, the proof^[b] of what is not seen.^(A)