You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name,(A) and have not grown weary.

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And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

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36 You need to persevere(A) so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.(B)

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36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

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Patience in Suffering

Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming.(A) See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting(B) for the autumn and spring rains.(C) You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming(D) is near.(E) Don’t grumble against one another, brothers and sisters,(F) or you will be judged. The Judge(G) is standing at the door!(H)

10 Brothers and sisters, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets(I) who spoke in the name of the Lord. 11 As you know, we count as blessed(J) those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance(K) and have seen what the Lord finally brought about.(L) The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.(M)

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Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

11 Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

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Let us not become weary in doing good,(A) for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.(B)

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And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

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because you know that the testing of your faith(A) produces perseverance.(B) Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature(C) and complete, not lacking anything.

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Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

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11 being strengthened with all power(A) according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience,(B)

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11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;

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12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run(A) with perseverance(B) the race marked out for us,

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12 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

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13 And as for you, brothers and sisters, never tire of doing what is good.(A)

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13 But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.

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21 They will treat you this way because of my name,(A) for they do not know the one who sent me.(B)

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21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

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10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you(A) from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world(B) to test(C) the inhabitants of the earth.(D)

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10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

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Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary(A) and lose heart.

God Disciplines His Children

In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.(B) And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says,

“My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline,
    and do not lose heart(C) when he rebukes you,

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For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

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15 And so after waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised.(A)

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15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

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12 We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate(A) those who through faith and patience(B) inherit what has been promised.(C)

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12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

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