32 But recall those earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,
33sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and persecution, and sometimes being partners with those so treated.
34For you had compassion for those who were in prison, and you cheerfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you yourselves possessed something better and more lasting.
35Do not, therefore, abandon that confidence of yours; it brings a great reward.
36For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.
37For yet
in a very little while,
the one who is coming will come and will not delay;
38 but my righteous one will live by faith.
My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back.
39But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost, but among those who have faith and so are saved.
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3 Trust in the Lord and be doing good; ♦︎
dwell in the land and be nourished with truth.
4 Let your delight be in the Lord ♦︎
and he will give you your hearts desire.
5 Commit your way to the Lord and put your trust in him, ♦︎
and he will bring it to pass.
6 He will make your righteousness as clear as the light ♦︎
and your just dealing as the noonday.
40 The salvation of the righteous comes from the Lord; ♦︎
he is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
41 The Lord shall stand by them and deliver them; ♦︎
he shall deliver them from the wicked and shall save them,
because they have put their trust in him.
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26 He also said, The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, 27and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. 28The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. 29But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.
30 He also said, With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? 31It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; 32yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.
33 With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it;
34he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.
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