²⁵ So take heart, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told.

²⁰ No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, ²¹ fully convinced that ^(A)God was able to do what he had promised.

⁴⁵ And ^(A)blessed is she who believed that there would be^[a] a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”

^12 (A)which is why I suffer as I do. But ^(B)I am not ashamed, for ^(C)I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until ^(D)that day ^(E)what has been entrusted to me.^[a]

²⁰ And they rose early in the morning and went out into ^(A)the wilderness of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! ^(B)Believe in the Lord your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed.”

²¹ Since they had been without food for a long time, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, ^(A)you should have listened to me and not have set sail from Crete and incurred this ^(B)injury and loss. ²² Yet now I urge you to ^(C)take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

¹¹ But the centurion paid more attention to ^(A)the pilot and to the owner of the ship than to what Paul said.

³⁶ Then they all ^(A)were encouraged and ate some food themselves.