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For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost, but among those who have faith and so are saved.

By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible.

By faith Enoch was taken so that he did not experience death; and "he was not found, because God had taken him." For it was attested before he was taken away that "he had pleased God."

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.

By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as if it were dry land, but when the Egyptians attempted to do so they were drowned.

since God had provided something better so that they would not, apart from us, be made perfect.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners, so that you may not grow weary or lose heart.

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, "I tremble with fear.")

This phrase, "Yet once more," indicates the removal of what is shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

So we can say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?"

I urge you all the more to do this, so that I may be restored to you very soon.

make you complete in everything good so that you may do his will, working among us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

and let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing.

In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave us birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.

So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead.