As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.
I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.
Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more.
On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: “Fear not, O Zion; let not your hands grow weak.
I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living!
And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,
to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
But you say, ‘What a weariness this is,’ and you snort at it, says the Lord of hosts. You bring what has been taken by violence or is lame or sick, and this you bring as your offering! Shall I accept that from your hand? says the Lord.
And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, ‘Is there any man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.’
When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.
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