giving up
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9And so, let us not be deficient in doing good. For in due time, we shall reap without fail.
9Behold, I am instructing you. Be strengthened, and be steadfast. Do not dread, and do not fear. For the Lord your God is with you in all things, wherever you may go.”
7But as for you, be strengthened, and do not let your hands be weakened. For there will be a reward for your work.”
11in solicitude, not lazy; in spirit, fervent; serving the Lord; 12in hope, rejoicing; in tribulation, enduring; in prayer, ever-willing;
7I have fought the good fight. I have completed the course. I have preserved the faith.
13Be vigilant. Stand with faith. Act manfully and be strengthened.
27And Jesus, gazing at them, said: “With men it is impossible; but not with God. For with God all things are possible.”
28Come to me, all you who labor and have been burdened, and I will refresh you.
8Yet truly, let this one thing not escape notice, most beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like one day. 9The Lord is not delaying his promise, as some imagine, but he does act patiently for your sake, not wanting anyone to perish, but wanting all to be turned back to penance.
13Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.
12For when the will is prompted, it receives according to what that person has, not according to what that person does not have.
58And so, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not useless in the Lord.
24When he falls, he will not be harmed, because the Lord places his hand under him.
1If I were to speak in the language of men, or of Angels, yet not have charity, I would be like a clanging bell or a crashing cymbal. 2And if I have prophecy, and learn every mystery, and obtain all knowledge, and possess all faith, so that I could move mountains, yet not have charity, then I am nothing. 3And if I distribute all my goods in order to feed the poor, and if I hand over my body to be burned, yet not have charity, it offers me nothing. 4Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. 5Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil. 6Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth.