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.