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22 Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness toward you, if you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.(A)

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14 For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end.

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Christ, however, was faithful over God’s[a] house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm[b] the boldness and the pride inspired by hope.(A)

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  1. 3.6 Gk his
  2. 3.6 Other ancient authorities add to the end

through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you—unless you have come to believe in vain.(A)

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He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes[a] to make it bear more fruit.

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  1. 15.2 The same Greek root refers to pruning and cleansing

Remember, then, from where you have fallen; repent and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

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So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up.(A)

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Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not realize that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?(A) But by your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.(B)

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to those who by patiently doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life,

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20 But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;(A) 21 keep yourselves in the love of God; look forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to[a] eternal life.(B)

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  1. 21 Gk Christ to

35 Do not, therefore, abandon that boldness of yours; it brings a great reward. 36 For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what was promised.(A) 37 For yet

“in a very little while,
    the one who is coming will come and will not delay,(B)
38 but my righteous one will live by faith.
    My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back.”(C)

39 But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost but among those who have faith and so preserve our souls.(D)

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23 Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful.(A)

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22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath that are made for destruction,(A) 23 and what if he has done so in order to make known the riches of his glory for the objects of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—

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