keeping the faith

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

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

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

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

³knowing that the proving of your faith exercises patience,

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.

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.

¹⁰You should fear nothing amid those things which you will suffer. Behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison, so that you may be tested. And you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give to you the crown of life.

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.

²³Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope, without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful.

²⁰But you, most beloved, are building yourselves up by your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹keeping yourselves in the love of God, and anticipating the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

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