IN A GREAT CONFLICT FULL OF SUFFERING

 

32 Remember those Earlier Days

After you had Received the Light,

When you endured

IN A GREAT CONFLICT FULL OF SUFFERING,

33 Sometimes you were Publicly Exposed

To Insult and Persecution,

At other times you Stood Side by Side

With those who were so Treated.

24 You Suffered along with those

In Prison and Joyfully Accepted the Confiscation

Of your Property,

Because you knew that you yourselves

Had better and Lasting Possessions.

35 So do not Throw Away your Confidence,

It will be Richly Rewarded.

36 You need to Persevere

So that when you have Done the Will of God,

You will Receive what He has Promised.

37 For, “in just a little while,

He Who is Coming will Come

And will not Delay.”

38 And, “But My Righteousness One

Will live by Faith,

And I take No Pleasure

In the One who Shrinks Back.”

39 But we do not Belong

To those who Shrink Back

And are Destroyed,

But to those who have Faith

And are Saved.

(Hebrews 10:32-39, NIV)