¹⁹ Stand firm, and you will win life.^(A)

¹² Be joyful in hope,^(A) patient in affliction,^(B) faithful in prayer.^(C)

⁴ Therefore, among God’s churches we boast^(A) about your perseverance and faith^(B) in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring.^(C)

⁴ Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature^(A) and complete, not lacking anything.

²⁰ But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God.^(A)