Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

³² Call to remembrance the days that are past, in which, after you had received light, you endured a great fight in adversities – ³³ at times when everyone wondered and gazed at you for the shame and tribulation that was done to you, and other times when you became companions of those in such circumstances. ³⁴ For you suffered also with my bonds. And you bore patiently the spoiling of your goods, and that with gladness, knowing in yourselves that you had in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

³⁵ Cast not away therefore your confidence, which earns great reward. ³⁶ For you have need of patience, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise: ³⁷ For yet a very little while, and he who is to come will come, and will not be long. ³⁸ But the just shall live by faith. And if a person withdraws himself, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

³⁹ But we are not of those who withdraw ourselves unto damnation, but are of faith to the winning of the soul.