keeping faith

⁵Have confidence in the Lord with all your heart, and do not depend upon your own prudence. ⁶In all your ways, consider him, and he himself will direct your steps.

²⁰But this kind is not cast out, except through prayer and fasting.”

¹Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not apparent.

⁷I have fought the good fight. I have completed the course. I have preserved the faith.

¹⁷Therefore, faith is from hearing, and hearing is through the Word of Christ.

⁷For we walk by means of faith, and not by sight.

¹Therefore, having been justified by faith, let us be at peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ. ²For through him we also have access by faith to this grace, in which we stand firm, and to glory, in the hope of the glory of the sons of God. ³And not only that, but we also find glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation exercises patience, ⁴and patience leads to proving, yet truly proving leads to hope, ⁵but hope is not unfounded, because the love of God is poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. ⁶Yet why did Christ, while we were still infirm, at the proper time, suffer death for the impious?

¹³Be vigilant. Stand with faith. Act manfully and be strengthened.

⁶But without faith, it is impossible to please God. For whoever approaches God must believe that he exists, and that he rewards those who seek him.

¹⁶In all things, take up the shield of faith, with which you may be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the most wicked one.

³knowing that the proving of your faith exercises patience,

³Cry out to me and I will heed you. And I will announce to you great things, things that are certain, though you do not know them.

¹⁷Thus even faith, if it does not have works, is dead, in and of itself. ¹⁸Now someone may say: “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works! But I will show you my faith by means of works.

⁶In this, you should exult, if now, for a brief time, it is necessary to be made sorrowful by various trials, ⁷so that the testing of your faith, which is much more precious than gold tested by fire, may be found in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

⁹And so, let us not be deficient in doing good. For in due time, we shall reap without fail.

¹²Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you have been called, and make a good profession of faith in the sight of many witnesses.