For so the Lord has commanded us, ‘I have appointed You as a light to the Gentiles, That You may bring salvation to the end of the earth.’”

When our days there were ended, we left and started on our journey, while they all, with wives and children, escorted us until we were out of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying, we said farewell to one another.

What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with great patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

For Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

But I say, surely they have never heard, have they? On the contrary: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, And their words to the ends of the world.”

For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

who will also confirm you to the end, blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

and we labor, working with our own hands; when we are verbally abused, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

If others share the right over you, do we not more? Nevertheless, we did not use this right, but we endure all things so that we will cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

No temptation has overtaken you except something common to mankind; and God is faithful, so He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.

it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to our God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power.

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer;

For we write nothing else to you than what you read and understand, and I hope you will understand until the end;

For to this end I also wrote, so that I might put you to the test, whether you are obedient in all things.

and we are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not stare at the end of what was fading away.

but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in difficulties,

as it is written: “He scattered abroad, he gave to the poor, His righteousness endures forever.”

Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.

to the end that we who were the first to hope in the Christ would be to the praise of His glory.

whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who have their minds on earthly things.

For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you also endured the same sufferings at the hands of your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews,

Encouragement of Timothy’s Visit

Therefore, when we could no longer endure it, we thought it best to be left behind, alone at Athens,

For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I also sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter might have tempted you, and our labor would be for nothing.