The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness that behold, *The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth;