and if wrong in your eyes to serve Jehovah — choose for you to-day whom ye do serve; — whether the gods whom your fathers served, which [are] beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling; and I and my house — we serve Jehovah.’
but he who did endure to the end, he shall be saved;
‘And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain [it], and bear fruit in continuance.
in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;
and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.’
Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;
brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing — the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth —
to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
As many, therefore, as [are] perfect — let us think this, and if [in] anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,
but to what we have come — by the same rule walk, the same thing think;
become followers together of me, brethren, and observe those thus walking, according as ye have us — a pattern;
through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.
the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,