Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.
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 I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory.
I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.
Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace, which was given me by the working of his power. To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,
All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
Since we have such a hope, we are very bold,
Now concerning the betrothed, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy.
Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;
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