Furthermore, we have all had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Should we not much more submit to the Father of our spirits and live?

No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace to those who have been trained by it.

Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I …

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,

because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.

Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

… before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted …

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

See how blessed we consider those who have persevered. You have heard of Job’s perseverance and have seen the outcome from the Lord. …

so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and …

“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time He may exalt you.

Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.

… And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.

Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.

Wake up and strengthen what remains, which is about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God.

Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

For this reason, they are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple; and the One seated …

‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’

… will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”

Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They …

Furthermore, they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft.

and curse the God of heaven for their pains and sores. Yet they did not repent of their deeds.

Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb